This book is a series of lessons with activities for teachers covering functional skills/ Essential Skills Wales/ Core Skills Scotland Application of Number. The lessons provide a scenario where students have to engage in stock control in a fictional salon. The actual numeracy being delivered is the use of percentages, decimals and fractions. It is essential that this cohort of students can work comfortably within each of these basic skill areas and can switch when required. The contextualisation of these skills within the context of hair and beauty motivates them to learn since they are given a purpose. The book also comes with language based smartboard activities which should also work on other platforms. These are designed to develop the use of appropriate language with students and help to develop their communication skills. There are also a number of powerpoint slides (and their Open office equivalents) to support colleagues in delivering learning sessions to their students. Finally we have used a professional voice over artist to record the worksheets to enable poor readers of English to access the learning materials in this package.

 

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by GLMP Ltd .

Dr Graham Lawler is the writer and broadcaster known as Mr Educator. He can be heard on a number of BBC Stations around the UK, and now on LBC Radio in London. Caroline Munroe is a teacher and has taught in a number of schools and colleges. She now lives near Chester with her husband and is very keen to help develop numeracy and mathematics in the training of entrants into the Hair and Beauty industry.

This book has the following chapters: Session One: Addition Session Two: Rounding Session Three: Time Session Four: Percentages Session Five : Reading Graphs Session Six: The mean, median and mode Session Seven: Area Session Eight: Volume Interactive White Board Activities