Entry Level 3 Functional Skills Maths: Handling Information and Data L1

This Home-Ed resource is a great addition to any home learning journey. These lessons will take your child through the Maths Entry Level 3 which consists of three main components: Handling Data: Tables and Frequency, Interpreting Data and Organising and Representing Data: Charts and Graphs.

Lesson 1. Handling Data: Tables and Frequency

• Learning Objective: To extract information from lists, tables, diagrams and charts and create frequency tables.

• Introduction to Data Handling: Why is it important?

• What are lists, tables, diagrams, and charts? Initial examples.

• Understanding different types of data: Categorical and Numerical.

• Activity: Extracting information from simple lists.

• Introduction to Frequency: What does it mean?

• Modelling: How to create a frequency table from a list of data.

• Guided Practice: Creating frequency tables with simple datasets.

• Independent Practice: Creating frequency tables from given data.

• Review: Checking frequency table accuracy.

• Application: Discussing real-world examples of frequency tables.

• Plenary: Quick quiz on identifying data types and frequency.