
How many packs of tiles does this wall need? Area, compound shapes and rounding UP to whole packs, set on a real building site. A complete, ready-to-teach GCSE Foundation maths resit lesson for construction learners.
Part of Maths for Construction by Mo Squared: a 12-lesson series of GCSE Foundation maths taught through real building site tasks, for bricklaying, carpentry and joinery, plumbing, electrical and painting and decorating groups. Written and trialled by an FE maths teacher with his own resit groups, so every question uses real jobs, prices and measurements.
What’s covered
- Part A: Area of rectangles
- Part B: Walls minus doors and windows (compound shapes)
- Part C: How many packs to buy, and the cost
What’s included (4 files)
- Ready-to-teach PowerPoint (about 90 minutes): Recall, Starter, key words and facts, then Parts A, B and C, each with a visual method slide, I do, We do, 6 You Do mini-whiteboard questions and a timed task
- Printable worksheet: Bronze (scaffolded), Silver and Gold tasks for each part, plus 4 exam-style questions
- Exit tickets (two per page, with a confidence scale)
- Full teacher answers
Why teachers like it
- Click-by-click modelling: each click shows one step of the working with the matching part of the diagram
- Visuals everywhere: bar models, ratio tables, number lines and labelled diagrams
- Clickable answers that open full worked solutions
- Built-in differentiation: the You Do score tells learners whether to start on Bronze, Silver or Gold
- Realistic trade numbers, prices and rules; all questions are original and every answer has been checked twice
Ideal for GCSE maths resit (post-16), FE maths departments, vocational tutors embedding maths, and apprenticeship maths support.
Best used in Microsoft PowerPoint (desktop) so the click-by-click animations and answer links work.
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