eCPD Resource - Party Planning

Health & Social Care

Party Planning1

Functional SkillsHealth & Social Care

IntroductionThis activity will take place while you are on a placement in a Health and Social Care setting.

You will need to:

• Support individuals to have a party, using different mathematics

Once you have completed the task, discuss this with your workplace mentor.

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Equipment

It would be useful to have the following:

• A calculator

• A pen, pencil and eraser

Learning

In this task you will be covering the areas detailed below.

Health and Social Care:

• Working with money in figures and words

• Supporting an individual with their financial affairs

Functional Skills:

• Select and apply mathematics in an organised way to find solutions to practical prob-lems for different purposes.

There is a section at the back of this booklet for any notes you want to make.

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Task 1

Refer to the setting’s good practice in supporting individuals with financial affairs.

Summarise this below:

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Summary

Task 2

You are supporting residents by helping to organise a party.

If 1 box of cupcakes has 4 and you need 37 cupcakes, how many boxes will you need for each resident to have 1 cupcake. Show your working out on the next sheet.

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Your calculations

Task 2

Percentages

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Every box of 4 cupcakes has 2 yellow, 1 brown and 1 green.

What percentage of cupcakes are:

Green?

Brown?

Yellow?

Task 3

Fractions

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Please write your answers for Task 2 as fractions

Green

Brown

Yellow

Task 3

Fractions

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You have 4 pizzas that need to be shared equally between 17 residents.

You cut each pizza into 9 pieces.

How many pieces can each resident have?

Task 4

Fractions

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What fraction of each pizza will each resident eat?

Use the circles below to support your answer.

Task 5

Measuring

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An individual is on restricted fluid intake and can only have 1250mls per day.

You need to divide this by 5 to give equal amounts at set times.

How many mls can the indivdual have at the party, if he can have 2 of these equal amounts?

Task 6

Calculations

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You are organising for visitors to come to the party.

You need 43 seats on the train.

503 have been sold.

There are 65 seats in each carriage of the train.

How many carriages will there need to be for the individual to get to the party?

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Notes

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