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.

• 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