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This is a full Functional skills level 2 lesson on averages.
I always find that the most difficult thing for my students, is to tackle the long form questions which throw so much information out in one chunk, that it is difficult for them to work out where to start.
With all my Functional Skills resources, I try and incorporate multi-step questions right from the start, to give my learners maximum practice time in order to acquire the skills they’ll need for the exam. I break some of the questions down into more manageable steps before letting them loose on full blown questions. So that is what I have here in PowerPoint and PDF format. This is a 35 page/slide unit that covers everything they will need for questions involving averages.
Before each long question, there is a series of short questions which introduce all the skills that will need to be applied to the long question. For instance, there are some questions in the averages unit, which require a knowledge of percentages or column multiplication. I have included questions on these skills so that, if necessary, students can practise these areas before tackling the long question.
It is may aim to ‘mix’ things up a little so that skills are revisited many times in different contexts - as applying skills in different contexts is another skill my students tend to struggle with. I hope you find these helpful. I have numbered the units I use with Functional Skills because the lower numbers have fewer required prior skills so if you follow them in order, the skills build over time. But if you just need some averages work that’s fine - they work fine out of order.