Functional Skills in GCSE

Functional elements in GCSE Maths focus on the following processes:

• Representing – selecting the mathematics and information to model a situation
• Analysing – processing and using mathematics
• Interpreting – interpreting and communicating the results of the analysis

The criteria can be downloaded from http://www.ofqual.gov.uk/files/2009-11-functional-skills-criteria-for-mathematics.pdf

 

Functional Skills in the Longman books

Questions with a functional focus are tagged with a Functional icon.

Functional questions have a red “functional” icon

 In addition, there are frequent double page spreads devoted to fully practising Functional Maths. The example below describes a dental surgery where patients who miss their appointments  are heavily fined according to the length of the appointment they missed!

Functional Maths spread from the GCSE Student Book