Download one side on foreign currency conversion. It explains converting from Sterling to foreign currency and back again, and has a few questions of each kind. The worksheet assumes that students will use calculators.

I was searching for Web pages with simple explanations of the topics in the Number unit of an access maths module so that I could make a ‘hyperlinked calendar’ of topics for each week. I couldn’t find anything sensible for foreign currency so I wrote this. Spatchcocking together examples and YouTubes and demonstrations and quizzes from lots of different sources on the Web sounds good in principle but there are drawbacks in practice.

Part of 20 Minutes, although it took about 40 minutes really.

Download a PDF with 48 Numeracy Level 1 questions broken down into 4 ‘days’ worth of homework. Each homework lasts about 20 minutes.

• Whole numbers
• Fractions, decimals and percentages
• Units, areas, volumes
• Money!

You will need to do your own answers until I get near my scanner. I wanted to show standard methods in these questions. I’m thinking of giving homework broken down into 10 or 20 minutes a day next year.

Download a PDF file containing a four page worksheet with graph plotting questions. There are two questions about plotting quadratics in the first quadrant, and these questions include plotting a straight line and reading off the intersection points. Another question is about finding the gradient and intercept of two straight line graphs and then writing down their formulas. A further question asks the student to plot two straight lines from supplied formulas, making up their own points.

Just a quick job using a spreadsheet to generate the grids and graphs (actually, I simply drew the straight line graphs onto the grid generated by a speadsheet).