Move On Up: Learning Chunk – Entry 3 numeracy
Contexts: Learners will use measuring in a number of everyday and vocational contexts and will find it useful to build their confidence in estimating and measuring using different units. They can also develop their awareness of the links between metric measures and the value of using a system which uses multiples of ten, hundred and thousand.
Move On Up: Learning Chunk – Entry 3 numeracy
Estimating
Curriculum references: N1/3.8, MSS1/E3.5, MSS1 /E3.6, MSS1/E3.7
Context: Being confident with estimating is a vital skill for learners to help them to check answers and to decide if answers calculated are reasonable or not. They will also use estimating in everyday or work contexts to estimate time, costs, distances, etc. Learners at Entry 3 will often have more skills than they realise and will build confidence from understanding how valuable a skill using estimating effectively can be.
Move On Up: Learning Chunk – Entry 3 numeracy
Curriculum references: N2/E3.2
Context: There are many everyday and work contexts that involve dividing items or quantities into equal parts, and learners can use their life experience and practical examples to help them understand equivalent fractions. They can use equivalent forms to help them to develop their understanding of fractions as a way of describing part of a whole – and so build towards the skills that enable them to relate fractions to percentages.
Move On Up: Learning Chunk – Entry 3 numeracy
udgeting
Curriculum references:
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MSS1/E3.1 – add and subtract sums of money using decimal notation.
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MSS1/E3.2 – round sums of money to the nearest £ and 10p and make approximate calculations.
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N2/E3.3 – read, write and understand decimals up to two decimal places in practical contexts e.g. £2.37.
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N2 /E3.4 – use a calculator to calculate using whole numbers and decimals to solve problems in context, and to check calculations.
Move On Up: Learning Chunks – Entry 3 numeracy
learning chunk is not a session plan. It provides a series of teaching and learning ideas around a skills(s) area. It is intended that teachers can select and adapt the ideas to meet the requirements of their learners in different contexts.
Move On Up: Learning Chunk – Entry 2 numeracy
Curriculum references: MSS1/E2.6, MSS1/E2.9
Contexts: Learners will use measuring in a range of everyday and vocational contexts and will find it useful to build their confidence in using weighing scales and in estimating and measuring different weights. They can also develop their awareness of other units of measurement and the transferable skills of working in metric measures.
Move On Up: Learning Chunk – Entry 2 numeracy
Curriculum reference: N2/E2.1
Context: There are many everyday phrases that involve ‘half’ (and to a lesser extent ‘quarter’) and learners can use their work/life experience to help them understand these simple fractions. They may also need to divide items or amounts into halves or quarters – or to describe the proportions of different parts that make up a half or a quarter of a whole.
Move On Up: Learning Chunks – Entry 2 numeracy
Context: Learners will use money skills in many contexts in their everyday lives and need to feel confident with different ways of combining coins to work out amounts spent, give appropriate coins/notes and to work out (or check) change.
Move On Up: Learning Chunk – Entry 1 numeracy
Curriculum reference: MSS1/E1.1
Contexts: Learners will use these skills in a number of everyday and working contexts – they are often highly motivated to work on developing their skills in this area. The ability to confidently handle notes and coins will lay good foundations on which to build the development of other skills involving money and numbers in general. It is important that activities are practical, make use of actual coins and are related to everyday situations – rather than being done as arithmetical calculations.
Move On Up: Learning Chunk – Entry 1 and Entry 2 numeracy
Curriculum references: N1/E1.1, N1/E1.2, N1/E.3, N1/E2.1, N1/E2.2, N1/E2.3
Contexts: The skills of recognising, ordering and comparing numbers are fundamental to many everyday skills and to a wide variety of other maths topics. Learners will use these skills in a range of everyday contexts and will need learning to be related to concrete examples and to their own life experience.
