This resource has been designed for students working towards Functional Skills Maths qualifications at Entry Level 1(Edexcel-Pearson, NCFE, City and Guilds, NOCN and Open Awards). It contains an age-appropriate, 23-page workbook and a PowerPoint lesson on the capacity component of outcome 8 in the ‘Using Common Measures Shape and Space’ specification - describe and make comparisons in words between measures of items including size, length, width, height, weight and capacity.

PowerPoint Lesson

This resource contains an editable, 70-slide PowerPoint lesson. It explains the difference between volume and capacity and how to describe and compare the volume and capacity of containers. It also contains some reasoning and problem solving tasks on capacity.

Workbook

The 23-page workbook contains four information/explanation, 17 worksheets, a progress check, a certificate of achievement and answers.

The PowerPoint lesson and the workbook will help pupils to achieve the following outcomes:

to use the words full, empty, half full, half empty to describe the volume of containers.
to compare the capacity and volume of containers using the following terms – more than, greater than, less than, equal to

The bundles below contain workbooks and PowerPoint lessons that cover all of the outcomes pupils are required to achieve at each level.

Level 1 - Numbers and The Number System Bundle

Level 1 - Measures, Shape, Space Bundle

Level 1 - Handling Information and Data Bundle

Entry Level 3 Bundle

Entry Level 2 Bundle

Entry Level 1 Bundle

Level 1 Maths Resources

Entry Level English Resources