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Have you ever noticed how often you need maths skills in everyday life?
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This 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 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.
Earn this free Open University digital badge if you complete this course! The badge can be displayed, shared and downloaded as a marker of your achievement. The badge is awarded for completing the course and passing the quizzes.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- Understand practical problems, some of which are non-routine
- Identify the maths skills you need to tackle a problem
- Use maths in an organised way to find the solution you’re looking for
- Use appropriate checking procedures at each stage
- Explain the process you used to get an answer and draw simple conclusions from it.
Course Currilcum
- Introduction and guidance 00:15:00
- What is a badged course? 00:15:00
- How to get a badge 00:10:00
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- Introduction 00:15:00
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- Whole numbers 00:05:00
- Positive numbers and place value 00:15:00
- Numbers with zeros 00:25:00
- Writing large numbers 00:20:00
- Negative numbers 00:20:00
- Working with whole numbers 00:15:00
- Add and subtract large numbers 00:30:00
- Multiplication 00:20:00
- Multiples and square numbers 00:20:00
- Multiplication methods 00:30:00
- Division 00:15:00
- Short and long division 00:20:00
- A note on the four operations 00:20:00
- Rounding 00:30:00
- Estimating answers to calculations 00:15:00
- Decimals 00:25:00
- Approximations with decimals 00:20:00
- Rounding money 00:15:00
- Calculations using decimals 00:15:00
- Multiplication 00:20:00
- Division 00:25:00
- Decimal problems 00:15:00
- Introduction 00:15:00
- Mileage charts 00:25:00
- Adding distances 00:25:00
- Capacity 00:10:00
- Instruments of measure 00:20:00
- Converting metric units of capacity 00:20:00
- Calculate using metric units of capacity 00:20:00
- Time 00:15:00
- Calculate time difference 00:15:00
- Session 2 quiz 00:03:00
- Session 2 summary 00:10:00
- Polygons 00:10:00
- Angles 00:15:00
- 2D and 3D shapes 00:15:00
- Common 3D shapes 00:05:00
- Symmetry 00:15:00
- Introduction 00:10:00
- Collecting data 01:00:00
- Probability 00:30:00
- Probability scales 00:30:00
- Session 4 quiz Unlimited
- Session 4 summary 00:10:00
- Bringing it all together 00:15:00
