Ratio & Proportion Functional Skills Maths Level 2

Functional Skills Maths Level 2 – Ratio & Proportion
Catering, Supplies & Work Planning

Functional Skills Maths Level 2 worksheet developing ratio and proportion skills through realistic catering, purchasing and work-planning scenarios. Learners simplify and compare ratios, share amounts, scale recipes, compare supplier costs and solve problems involving direct and inverse proportion.

Questions progress from essential calculations to multistep problems requiring learners to select methods, compare results and explain practical decisions.

Unlike many Functional Skills resources, this worksheet AVOIDS childish clip-art and primary school themes, making it suitable for adult learners who want materials that feel age-appropriate, engaging and relevant.

What’s included
✔ 10 structured questions, including multipart tasks.
✔ Six-page PDF: cover page, four learner pages and a teacher answer key.
✔ Clear layout with space for calculations and written explanations.
✔ Realistic contexts involving catering, deliveries, purchasing, cleaning, staffing and production.
✔ Non-calculator practice followed by clearly identified calculator questions.
✔ Ratios involving quantities in different units.
✔ Comparing ratios using fractions, decimals and percentages.
✔ Sharing amounts in a three-part ratio.
✔ Finding quantities from a ratio and a known difference.
✔ Direct proportion problems involving recipes and supplier costs.
✔ Inverse proportion problems involving workers, journey times and machines.
✔ Fully worked answers with calculations and explanations.
✔ Practice addressing Department for Education Functional Skills Maths Level 2 criterion L2.11: ratios, direct proportion and inverse proportion.

Ideal for
• Adult education
• Functional Skills classes
• Apprenticeships
• Independent learning
• Homework
• Revision
• Targeted support
• GCSE maths intervention where appropriate

What learners will practise
✔ Simplifying ratios into whole-number form.
✔ Converting quantities into matching units before forming a ratio.
✔ Expressing part of a mixture as a fraction, decimal and percentage.
✔ Comparing the proportions in different mixtures.
✔ Dividing an amount in a given ratio.
✔ Finding missing quantities using the difference between ratio parts.
✔ Scaling ingredient quantities for different numbers of portions.
✔ Comparing purchasing options, including whole-pack restrictions.
✔ Calculating quantities needed for a specified dilution.
✔ Using inverse proportion to calculate staffing and journey times.
✔ Combining proportional relationships to check production deadlines.
✔ Checking whether answers are reasonable and explaining decisions.

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