Mathematics

Our teachers are here to help and support you to improve your maths skills.

These are vital for money management, calculating area and space and understanding ratios and percentages.

Qualifications in maths (Functional Skills and GCSE) will propel your personal, academic and career success.

MATHEMATICS GCSE

This course will help learners to develop confidence in, and a positive attitude towards, mathematics and to recognise the importance and relevance of mathematics to their everyday lives and to society. This course will enable learners to appreciate the coherence, creativity, elegance and power of mathematics.

Course duration: One year.

Entry requirements: Functional Skills Level 2 or a 3 in GCSE Maths.

What students will learn: Students will develop problem solving skills, generate strategies to solve problems that are unfamiliar and answer questions that span more than one topic area of the curriculum. Students will be able to make mental calculations and calculations without the aid of a calculator, make estimates, understand 3-D shapes, use computers and other technological aids, collect data, and understand and use the statistical problem solving cycle.

Assessment: Written exams.

Student profile: Students are required to take this course if they do not already have a level 4 in GCSE maths.

Possible combinations: Any combination.

MATHEMATICS FUNCTIONAL SKILLS LEVEL 2 AND 1

The Functional Skills Mathematics course will enable the student to gain confidence and fluency in Mathematics along with a new and positive attitude towards the subject that they have yet to gain a significant grade or qualification in. Students will convey their confidence in using Mathematics by demonstrating a sound grasp of Mathematical knowledge and skills and apply it to solve Mathematical problems.

Course duration: One year.

Entry requirements: There are no entry requirments.

What students will learn: Students will be able to work out simple relationships between common units of measurement to define quantities, also involving mathematical terms for position and direction. Students will learn to apply and use calculations with common measures including money, time, length, weight and capacity.

Learners at Level 2 will learn how to handle relationships between measurements of various kinds, use angles and coordinates when involving position and direction and make use of geometric properties in calculations with 2-D and 3-D shapes and understand the relationships between them.

Assessment: Written exams.

Student profile: Students without a qualification in Mathematics.

Possible combinations: Any combination.