How many pieces from a 6 m bar, and how many bars do we order? Cutting lists, saw-cut allowance, rounding up and down, and ordering steel with VAT. A complete, ready-to-teach GCSE Foundation maths resit lesson for engineering learners.

Part of Maths for Engineering by Mo Squared: a 12-lesson series of GCSE Foundation maths taught through real engineering workshop tasks, for fabrication and welding, electrical and electronic, maintenance, and aerospace and automotive engineering groups. Written by an experienced FE maths resit teacher, so every question uses real jobs, prices and measurements.

What’s covered

• Part A: Cutting lists for welded box frames
• Part B: How many pieces fit (rounding down, saw cuts)
• Part C: Ordering steel bars, costs and cutting plans

What’s included (4 files)

• Ready-to-teach PowerPoint (about 90 minutes): Recall, Starter, key words and facts, then Parts A, B and C, each with a visual method slide, I do, We do, 6 You Do mini-whiteboard questions and a timed task
• Printable worksheet: Bronze (scaffolded), Silver and Gold tasks for each part, plus 4 exam-style questions
• Exit tickets (two per page, with a confidence scale)
• Full teacher answers

Why teachers like it

• Click-by-click modelling: each click shows one step of the working with the matching part of the diagram
• Visuals everywhere: bar models, ratio tables, number lines and labelled diagrams
• Clickable answers that open full worked solutions
• Built-in differentiation: the You Do score tells learners whether to start on Bronze, Silver or Gold
• Realistic trade numbers, prices and rules; all questions are original and every answer has been checked twice

Ideal for GCSE maths resit (post-16), FE maths departments, vocational tutors embedding maths, and apprenticeship maths support.

Best used in Microsoft PowerPoint (desktop) so the click-by-click animations and answer links work.

Want the whole series? The Maths for Engineering bundle has all 12 lessons at a big saving. Try the free lesson first: Engineering Maths: Measuring and Tolerances.