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We use the BKSB Functional Skills Maths tool to assess your maths ability up to and including Level 2. You need to be at Level 2 before you can proceed on to an engineering level 3 course, where you will learn level 3 maths.
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- Understand and use positive and negative numbers of any size in practical contexts
- Carry out calculations with numbers of any size in practical contexts, to a given number of decimal
places - Understand, use and calculate ratio and proportion, including problems involving scale
- Understand and use equivalences between fractions, decimals and percentages
- Understand and use simple formulae and equations involving one- or two-step operations
- Recognise and use 2D representations of 3D objects
- Find area and perimeter of common shapes
- Find volume of common shapes
- Use, convert and calculate using metric and, where appropriate, imperial measures
- Collect and represent discrete and continuous data, using ICT where appropriate
- Use and interpret discrete and continuous data
- Use statistical methods to investigate situations
- Use probability to assess the likelihood of an outcome
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