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The skills that come up on every Functional Skills and GCSE foundation paper, taught the way the tutor teaches them: one method, worked examples with every step shown, and the mistake that costs the marks.
How to work out a percentage of an amount, and one number as a percentage of another — the 10% method and the multiplier method, worked examples, and the mistakes to avoid.
Appears in: Functional Skills Level 1 · Functional Skills Level 2 · GCSE foundation
How to increase or decrease an amount by a percentage using multipliers, and how to work out the percentage change between two numbers — with worked examples.
Appears in: Functional Skills Level 2 · GCSE foundation
How to work backwards from a price after a discount or a rise to the original amount — the divide-by-the-multiplier method, worked examples, and why adding the percentage back on is wrong.
Appears in: Functional Skills Level 2 · GCSE foundation
How to simplify a ratio, share an amount in a given ratio, solve ratio questions where you're told the difference, and use direct proportion — with worked examples.
Appears in: Functional Skills Level 1 · Functional Skills Level 2 · GCSE foundation
How to work out speed, distance or time from the other two, how to convert minutes into decimal hours, and how the same method handles density — with worked examples.
Appears in: Functional Skills Level 2 · GCSE foundation
How to work out the mean, median, mode and range of a set of numbers, how to find the mean from a frequency table, and how to solve 'find the missing number' mean questions.
Appears in: Functional Skills Level 1 · Functional Skills Level 2 · GCSE foundation
How to work out the area and perimeter of rectangles, triangles, trapeziums, circles and compound shapes — the formulas, worked examples and the units to use.
Appears in: Functional Skills Level 1 · Functional Skills Level 2 · GCSE foundation
How to read and draw scatter graphs, describe positive, negative and no correlation, draw a line of best fit and use it to estimate — and why extrapolating is risky.
Appears in: Functional Skills Level 2 · GCSE foundation
How to work out the probability of an event as a fraction, decimal or percentage, the probability of something not happening, expected results, and combined events — with worked examples.
Appears in: Functional Skills Level 1 · Functional Skills Level 2 · GCSE foundation
How to convert between fractions, decimals and percentages, put a mixed list in order, find a fraction of an amount, and add fractions with different denominators — with worked examples.
Appears in: Functional Skills Level 1 · Functional Skills Level 2 · GCSE foundation
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