Pearson | Edexcel Functional Skills – Mathematics
TQUK are part of the AQA group.
TQUK’s Functional Skills assessments are available in two ways:
Online face-to-face: learners sit their assessments online in a controlled setting, invigilated by centre staff who then upload the completed documents for review and marking.
Online remote: learners can sit their assessments at any time, in any place, with TQUK remotely invigilating through its purpose-built record and review system.
TQUK Resources and Teaching Guidance (scroll down for Maths).
The Teaching Guidance provides examples of the content of the specification.
Resources:
Maths Made Memorable offers a very valuable and comprehensive resource collection, including videos and examples for Level 1 and Level 2. (January 2026 – there seems to be a problem with the website)
The vidoes are all hosted on the YouTube channel, Mars Maths YouTube
Choose Level 1 Functional Skills Maths or Level 2 Functional Skills Maths and select View Full course.
There is an excellent collection of videos by topic.
From Iain Forsyth’s Crack Maths learn Functional Skills Level 2 from 70 (all free) Tutorials.
Coverage of the specification is comprehensive and very clearly presented. Plenty of practice questions are provided, making this a valuable resource for studying Functional Skills.
Following each video, practice questions are provided, including scenario questions.
The videos are all hosted on YouTube. Also available are exam paper walkthroughs.
All the resources are freely available on the website; it is also possible to buy books for teachers or students who want printed copies. The Functional Skills book is also available from Amazon.
On Dr Frost Learning, practice skills for Functional Skills Level 1 or Level 2. This is a very comprehensive set of resources. Once you have submitted an answer, worked solutions are provided.
On TES, a set of 12 Multiple Choice quizzes by Colin Billett is available (free).
I like the mapping documents linking curriculum content to activities on Transum; the collection includes Functional Skills.
For Statistics, for example, try the StatGrid Challenge. This starts off nice and simply with level 1 but gets rather more challenging as you go up the levels!
CGP’s Free Online 10-Minute Tests collection includes Functional Skills at Level 1 and Level 2. All the answers are explained at the end of each test.