English and Math Functional Skills

Get more knowledge on the two most popular subjects in the world. Enhance your skills in the English and Maths functional skills with recognized certifications

English

What you will study:
You learn to deal with English problems that will help you develop skills across speaking, listening and communication, reading, and writing.

Examples of the types of skills you will develop include, but not limited to:
• Considering complex information and giving a relevant, cogent response in appropriate language
• Preparing for and contribute to the formal discussion of ideas and opinions
• Making different kinds of contributions to discussions
• Reading and summarising, succinctly, information, ideas from different sources
• Identifying the purposes of texts and commenting on how meaning is conveyed
• Detecting point of view, implicit meaning and/or bias
• Using a range of writing styles for different purposes
• Using a range of sentence structures, including complex sentences and paragraphs to organise written communication effectively.

Studied and externally assessed entirely online.

Maths

What you will study:
You learn to deal with Mathematical problems that will help you develop skills in representing, analysing and interpreting information.

Examples of the types of task you will work on include, but is not limited to:
• Carrying out calculations with numbers of any size in practical contexts, to a given number of decimal places
• Understanding, using and calculating ratio and proportion, including problems involving scale
• Understanding and using equivalences between fractions, decimals and percentages
• Understanding and using simple formulae and equations involving one or two- step operations
• Finding area, perimeter and volume of common shapes
• Using, converting and calculating metric and, where appropriate, imperial measures

Studied and externally assessed entirely online.

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