Qualification purpose

Functional Skills Mathematics qualifications are designed to give learners the skills to operate confidently, effectively and independently in education, work and everyday life. They have been created in response to employers’ perceptions that many learners are not achieving a sufficiently firm grounding in the basics.

 

Qualification objectives

The aims of these qualifications are to develop learner understanding and skills in:

Edexcel Functional Skills qualification in Mathematics at Entry 1

• Representing – understand simple mathematical information in familiar contexts and situations
• Analysing – use mathematics to obtain answers to simple given practical problems that are clear and routine.
• generate results that make sense for a specified task.
• Interpreting – provide solutions to simple given practical problems in familiar contexts and situations.

Edexcel Functional Skills qualification in Mathematics at Entry 2

• Representing – understand simple practical problems in familiar contexts and situations
• select basic mathematics to obtain answers

Analysing – use basic mathematics to obtain answers to simple given practical problems that are clear and routine

• generate results to a given level of accuracy
• use given checking procedures
• Interpreting – describe solutions to simple given practical problems in familiar contexts and situations

 

 

Edexcel Functional Skills qualification in Mathematics at Entry 3

• Representing
• understand practical problems in familiar contexts and situations
• begin to develop own strategies for solving simple problems
• select mathematics to obtain answers to simple given practical problems that are clear and routine

 

• Analysing
• apply mathematics to obtain answers to simple given practical problems that are clear and routine
• use simple checking procedures

 

• Interpreting
• interpret and communicate solutions to practical problems in familiar contexts and situations