Have you ever noticed how often you need maths skills in everyday life? This free course is an introduction to Level 1 Essential Skills in maths that’s designed to inspire you to improve your current maths skills and help you to remember any areas that you may have forgotten.Working through the examples and interactive activities in this course will help you to, among other things, run a household or make progress in your career. To complete the course you will need access to a calculator and a notepad and pen.Enrolling on this course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. The badge is a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject. What you learn by completing the course will really help if you wish to enrol on a formal qualification.Once you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges online from your OpenLearn Profile. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn Statement of participation – which also displays your badge.This course has been produced as part of the Department for Education’s Flexible Learning Fund, the Higher Educational Funding Council for Wales and with the kind support of Dangoor Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch’s Foundation. This free course was written by Kerry Lloyd, Frances Hughes and Tracy Mitchell at Coleg Cambria, in partnership with Addysg Oedolion Cymru | Adult Learning Wales, Coleg Gwent, the NPTC Group of Colleges and The Open University, and in collaboration with Anna E. Crossland, Middlesbrough College, using materials belonging to the Open School Trust Ltd (trading as the National Extension College), and in partnership with the Bedford College Group and West Herts College.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction and guidance
- Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged course?
- How to get a badge
- Session1Session 1: Working with numbers
- Introduction
- 1 Whole numbers
- 1.1 Positive numbers and place value
- 1.2 Numbers with zeros
- 1.3 Writing large numbers
- 1.4 Negative numbers
- 1.5 Working with whole numbers
- 1.6 Add and subtract large numbers
- 1.7 Multiplication
- Multiplication by 10, 100 and 1Â 000
- Multiples and square numbers
- Multiplication methods
- 1.8 Division
- Division by 10, 100 and 1Â 000
- Short and long division
- 1.9 A note on the four operations
- 2 Rounding
- 2.1 Estimating answers to calculations
- 3 Fractions
- 3.1 Using equivalent fractions
- 3.2 Drawing fractions
- 3.3 Simplifying fractions
- 3.4 Fractions of amounts
- 4 Decimals
- 4.1 Approximations with decimals
- 4.2 Rounding money
- 4.3 Calculations using decimals
- Multiplication
- Division
- 4.4 Decimal problems
- 5 Percentages
- 5.1 Percentage increases and decreases
- 5.2 Finding percentages using a calculator
- 6 Equivalencies between fractions, decimals and percentages
- 7 Ratios
- 8 Proportion
- 9 Word formulas
- 10 A quick reminder: checking your work
- 11 Session 1 quiz
- 12 Session 1 summary
- Session2Session 2: Units of measure
- Introduction
- 1 Using metric measurements: length
- 1.1 Instruments of measure
- 1.2 Measuring accurately
- 1.3 Measuring in millimetres and centimetres
- 1.4 Converting units
- 1.5 Calculate using metric units of length
- 2 Mileage charts
- 2.1 Adding distances
- 3 Using metric measurements: weight
- 3.1 Instruments of measure
- 3.2 Weighing things
- 3.3 Converting metric units of weight
- 3.4 Calculate using metric units of weight
- 4 Capacity
- 4.1 Instruments of measure
- 4.2 Converting metric units of capacity
- 4.3 Calculate using metric units of capacity
- 5 Measuring temperature
- 5.1 Reading temperatures
- 5.2 Understanding temperature
- 6 Time
- 6.1 Calculate time difference
- 7 Session 2 quiz
- 8 Session 2 summary
- Session3Session 3: Shape and space
- Introduction
- 1 Shapes
- 1.1 Polygons
- 1.2 Angles
- 1.3 2D and 3D shapes
- 1.4 Common 3D shapes
- 2 Symmetry
- 3 Around the edge
- 3.1 Measuring the perimeter of irregular shapes
- 4 Area
- 5 Volume
- 6 Scale drawings
- 7 Maps
- 8 End-of-course quiz
- 9 Session 3 summary
- Session4Session 4: Handling data
- Introduction
- 1 Collecting data
- 2 Handling data
- 2.1 Reading tables
- 3 Pictograms
- 4 Pie charts
- 5 Bar charts
- 6 Line graphs
- 7 Choosing the best way to present your data
- 8 Averages
- 9 Finding the range
- 10 Probability
- 10.1 Probability scales
- 11 Session 4 quiz
- 12 Session 4 summary
- 13 Bringing it all together
- 14 Next steps
- Acknowledgements
