LIFESKILLS MATHS
NATIONAL 5

Course Description
This Course will develop your ability to:

  • Analyse real-life situations and problems involving mathematics
  • Identify valid mathematical operational skills to tackle real-life situations or problems
  • Use a range of mathematical operational skills to an appropriate degree of accuracy
  • Use mathematical reasoning skills to draw conclusions or justify decisions
  • Communicate mathematical information in an appropriate way

In addition to the externally assessed Course assessment, the Course has three mandatory Units, totalling 24 SCQF credit points.

Lifeskills Mathematics: Managing Finance and Statistics
L.O.1 Analysing a financial position using budget information; analysing and interpreting factors affecting income; determining the best deal, given three pieces of information; converting between several currencies; investigating the impact of interest rates on savings and
borrowing.
L.O.2 using a combination of statistics to investigate risk and its impact on life; using a combination of statistical information presented in different diagrams; using statistics (box plots , standard deviation) to analyse and compare data sets; drawing a line of best fit from given data.

Lifeskills Mathematics: Geometry and Measures
L.O. 1 Calculating a quantity based on two related pieces of information; constructing a scale drawing, including choosing a scale; planning a navigation course; carrying out efficient
container packing; using precedence tables to plan tasks; solving a problem involving
time management; considering the effects of tolerance.
L.O.2  investigating a situation involving gradient; solving a problem involving a composite shape which includes part of a circle; solving a problem involving the volume of a composite solid; using Pythagoras’ theorem within a two-stage calculation.

 

Numeracy –
L.O. 1 Real life problems which use contexts likely to be new to the learner, ie non-routine or not experienced as part of teaching and learningCalculations involving: whole numbers, fractions, decimal fractions, percentages, a simple formula, ratio and direct or indirect proportion.
L.O. 2 Graphical forms including
a table with at least five categories of information
a chart such as a comparative or compound bar chart,
a bar chart with a misleading scale or pie chart without values
a graph such as a conversion line graph, a comparative line graph or a line graph where
part of the axis is omitted or the scale is misleading
a diagram such as scatter diagram, back-to-back stem and leaf or a map

The Work of the Course
In class pupils discover, develop and practice ideas and examples from the course topics through various resources such as jotters, posters, show-me boards, group work, textbooks, IT.
At home there will be daily revision, practice of work covered in class and formal homework at fortnightly intervals (at least).

Assessment
Learning Outcomes from the units are internally assessed throughout the course and awarded on a pass/fail basis.  For each unit, you must show competence in two areas – operation skills and reasoning skills.  A final Course Assessment consists of two externally set exam papers, non calculator and calculator.
A course award which is graded A to D requires passes at all units and the final Course Assessment.

Possible Progression to  National 5 Maths