Units of length, weight, capacity, money, time, and temperature. Conversions between metric and imperial. Area, perimeter, and volume of common shapes — for floor plans, gardens, packaging, containers. Compound measures (speed, density, dose). Scale drawings and maps.
The framing is everyday adult life: measuring up a room, calculating paint needed, planning a journey time, working out medication dosage, reading a recipe in the wrong units.
Tested most directly by
- Pearson Edexcel FS Maths L2 — Using common measures, shape and space (Ofqual 2018 §4)
Also tested by
- Edexcel IGCSE 4MA1 AO2 (academic equivalent — broader, includes Pythagoras / trigonometry / vectors which FS does not)
- AQA GCSE 8300 AO1 (Geometry and measures content domain)
Cross-curriculum
- KS4 Maths — Geometry and measures (academic equivalent)
- Life and Work — Independent Living — Daily-life self-organisation (cooking, planning, journey times)
- GIGF — Module 3: Estimating and Cost (resource calculations)
- KS4 Science — Working scientifically (measurement is shared territory)
Suggested evidence types
- Floor-plan / room-measurement task with cost calculation (e.g. flooring, paint, curtain fabric)
- Journey-planning task involving distance, time, speed
- Recipe scaling and unit conversion task
- Medication-dose calculation (with care — pair with safety messaging if learners are likely to apply this)