Entry 2 – Page 2 – Maths with Graham

Here is a useful interactive white board tool on addition from www.mymaths.co.uk

http://www.mymaths.co.uk/samples/sampleLessonAdding2digitNumbers.swf

This exercise is to help ESOL students with their mathematical vocabulary. When you have checked your answers refresh your page and you will get a new exercise.

Finding half of a number is the same as dividing by 2. So half of 16 is 8.

Try this exercise

Ordinal numbers show us positions. First and Second are ordinal numbers. So we might say Nadeem came first in the race and Eric came second.

This quiz starts with entry level questions but to win a million you need to be able to solve equations and be an expert at 3d shapes! Who wants to be a mathionaire?

Here’s some timetable problems . I like the use of the time-line to show students how to calculate the answer.

Here’s a simple interactive quiz from Mathsframe about Bar Charts.

Practice your arithmetic with this realistic darts game.

http://www.fi.uu.nl/toepassingen/00058/toepassing_rekenweb.en.html

Lots of my ESOL students still get confused with some numbers. Seventy becomes 17 rather than 70 and sixteen is sometimes written as 60 rather than 16. Try this matching quiz to see if you can get them right.

An exercise to help ESOL students find the right words in different calculations.
Complete the sentence

Do you think you are ready to start studying Numeracy at Entry Level 2 in either Functional Skills or Adult Numeracy? If so have a go at this self assessment. If you get more than 50% right, then you probably should be in an Entry 3 class. This decision will be up to your teacher- this assessment is purely for your own benefit as it would be possible to do it lots of times and learn the answers without learning the maths! If you get a score above 80% you are probably ready to try some practice tests. Ask you teacher to help you find these. If you score less than 50% don’t despair- try the Entry 1 self assessment.