Click here to download this Level 2 Functional Maths worksheet, Don’t always believe what you read in the newspaper.
It concerns how much money you can save by spending less time in the shower.
Sep 302012
Mar 262012
This is the first in a series of Functional Skills resources about climate change and what the Government could do about it.
Mar 052012
An excellent introduction to upper and lower bounds from mymaths
Feb 092012
Here’s a great activity from Transum to help you round correctly either to significant figures or decimal places.
Feb 052012
Jan 142012
Numbers are often rounded to find approximate percentages. For example if 28 out of 119 ESOL students come from Eastern Europe we could round to the nearest ten, giving us 30 out of 120.
30รท120 x 100 = 25% so we can say that 28 out of 119 students is roughly 25%.
Practice approximating percentages with this quiz.
Jan 122012
Sometimes complicated fractions can be rounded and cancelled down.
could round to 
because 72 is 70 to the nearest 10 and 99 is 100 to the nearest 10.
See if you can approximate these fractions.
Nov 012011
A 2 player/team quiz with fiendishly difficult rounding questions. Choose your level of difficulty, harder questions earn more points.
Oct 302011
Practice rounding numbers to the nearest 100.
The trick is to look at the tens column. If this is 5 or more, round up. If it is less then 5 the hundreds column stays the same.
So 439 rounds to 400, but 459 rounds up to 500