Functional Skills Maths Level 1 - 09865

Functional Skills reform update

As you may be aware, both Ofqual and the DfE have recently held public consultations regarding the reform of Functional Skills qualifications in English and Maths at all levels. It is intended that the reformed qualifications are available for first teach in September 2019.

We are fully engaged with both consultations and intend to continue to offer the full provision of reformed Functional Skills. We will keep you updated of intentions and outcomes as they progress.

Please refer to the centre timeline for more information.

OCR has been at the forefront of developing functional skills assessments. This experience has given us a unique insight into what functionality means to assessment design. This qualification contains one mandatory unit and is externally set and assessed. The qualification is suitable for learners who wish to be recognized for their achievement of a wide range of mathematical skills for use in every day life.

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The teaching and learning resources on this page must not be used for summative assessment purposes. As part of our teaching we expect support to be given to your learners; such support is not permissible for summative assessment and is likely to be considered malpractice.

(1) Planning
- Mapping Cambridge Progression to Functional Skills to the new GCSEs (PDF, 557KB)
  
  See how Cambridge Progression and Functional Skills units map to the 2015 GCSE (9-1) English and Maths specifications.
  
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(1) Skills guides
- Download skills guides
(13) Support materials
- A guide to our resources - Start here (PDF, 1MB)
- A guide to resources - Start here (PDF, 1MB)
- Curriculum guide (PDF, 797KB)
- Delivery guide (PDF, 1MB)
- Functional Skills Maths Level 1 tutor guide - YouTube video
- Guidance for candidates and centres (PDF, 64KB)
- Level 1 Functional Skills Mathematics - Underpinning skills support material for learners (PDF, 510KB) Updated 19/11/2013
- Mapping to NRICH resources (PDF, 3MB)
  
  This guide shows the free resources available from NRICH mapped to Functional Skills mathematics.
  
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- Mathematics mapping - Progression to Functional Skills to GCSE (PDF, 1024KB)
- Presentation - Levels 1 and 2 (PPT, 9MB) New
- Resources links (PDF, 6MB)
- SMP Problem solving tasks for Functional Skills Maths (PDF, 3MB)
- Teacher resource - Activity bank (PDF, 1MB)

External resources

OCR has endorsed or recommended the following resources for use with this specification. For more information about endorsed or recommended resources, visit our endorsement page. Note: OCR is not responsible for the contents of third party sites.

(1) Endorsed by OCR

Description	An interactive Functional Skills Maths course for Entry Level 3, Level 1 and Level 2. All the delivery for the qualification is offered through film production, high quality content which sits on an interactive, easy to use platform. The platform alerts tutors if learners are struggling so they can be offered further support, either on a 1-1 basis or through video conferencing (which is also built into the platform). A new way of learning for a new generation of technology focused learners and also for previous generations who have struggled to learn in a traditional way. Publication date: Feb 2017
Author	Lucy Dunleavy and Nathan Carey
Publisher	LearnBox
Website	www.learningboxed.com

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