Level 5 - Subject Content
Level 5 follows on seamlessly from Level 4 of Maths For Life and builds on the scope and complexity of the topic in an incremental and logical way.
Maths For Life Level 5 enables access to Functional Skills Entry Level 3 and more.
TOPIC 1 - USING NUMBERS AND THE NUMBER SYSTEM - WHOLE NUMBERS, FRACTIONS, DECIMALS & PERCENTAGES
1. Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10 million
2. Understand place value up to millions
3. Use rounding to the nearest 10, 100, and 1000 to approximate and check results
4. Understand negative numbers
5. Multiply a two-digit whole number by two-digit whole numbers
6. Divide a three-digit whole number by two-digit whole numbers and express a remainder
7. Read, write, order and compare common fractions
8. Recognise and understand equivalent fractions
9. Recognise and understand mixed number fractions
10. Read, write, order and compare decimals to three decimal places
11. Round decimals to the nearest whole number
12. Read, write, understand and calculate a percentage
13. Recognise common fraction, decimal and percentage equivalents
14. Understand ratio and proportion
15. Recognise and continue linear sequences of whole numbers to 100
16. Recognise and continue linear sequences of decimal numbers
TOPIC 2 - USING COMMON MEASURES, SHAPE AND SPACE
17. Estimate money by rounding to the nearest £1, £10, £100, and £1000
18. Calculate money using fractions and percentages
19. Understand and calculate discounted pricing
20. Read, create and understand simple budgets
21. Make choices with money - spend, save, borrow, earn
22. Recognise and understand simple employment payslips / pay statements
23. Estimate duration in minutes, hours, days, weeks and months
24. Make choices and plans using time - clock and calendar
25. Recognise and understand imperial units of measure including inches, feet, miles, ounces, pounds, stones, fluid ounces, pints
26. Compare metric measures of length in different units
27. Compare metric measures of weight in different units
28. Compare metric measures of capacity in different units
29. Calculate using temperatures
30. Sort 2-D and 3-D shapes using properties - lines of symmetry, length, right angles, internal angles and composite shapes
31. Calculate the perimeter of simple 2-D shapes
32. Calculate the area of simple 2-D shapes
33. Calculate the volume of simple 3-D shapes - cube, cuboid and cylinder
34. Positional vocabulary - using the eight-point compass reference
TOPIC 3 - HANDLING INFORMATION AND DATA
35. Understand and calculate probability
36. Understand and extract information from conversion line graphs
37. Extract information from lists, tables, charts and line graphs with whole and decimal numbers
38. Interpret information, make comparisons, calculate the mean and range of data
39. Design a table to collect data and display information
40. Organise and represent information in appropriate ways
All Record of Progress, Content and Baseline Assessments use the same nomenclature reference that directly relates to the subject content. For example:
Topic 1 - 9. Recognise and understand mixed number fractions will be 4L1.9 - Level 4, Topic 1, Subject 9
Topic 2 - 27. Compare metric measures of weight in different units will be 4L2.27 - Level 4, Topic 2, Subject 27
LEVEL 5 STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE ABLE TO:
use given mathematical information including numbers, symbols, simple diagrams and charts;
recognise, understand and use simple mathematical terms appropriate to Level 5;
use the methods given above to produce, check and present results that make sense; and
present appropriate explanations using numbers, measures, diagrams, charts and symbols appropriate to Level 5.
The context for simple problems at Level 5 should be familiar to all students and easily described.
