Are numbers getting in your way?
Numbers are everywhere in everyday adult life. But we can help make numbers easier for you. We offer support and advice on fully-funded short courses for adults in your local area. And they’re free!
A wide range of courses will give you the confidence to work with figures, as well as bagging a skill for life. Skills that you can apply in the workplace, when calculating a bill, making dinner or helping out with homework.
Don’t let numbers stand in your way. Find out how you can improve your numeracy skills and be more confident with numbers by learning with people like you, at a place near you.
Contact Multiply123 on
0808 171 3030
for assistance on the courses available and how to register
Avoid the fear factor when it comes to figures!
Through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Multiply, a UK Government-funded programme to help adults improve basic numeracy skills, a range of fully-funded and free courses are available locally that will boost confidence and give you problem-solving skills that will keep number anxiety at bay.
Arranged in venues across the eight local authorities in Glasgow City Region, a wide range of courses are available to suit every need. There are even opportunities to gain a maths qualification.
Some examples of courses that are on offer:
Maths for Parents
Skills to help parents engage with their child’s homework
Cooking Together
Understanding nutrition, working out weights, portions, measuring ingredients, developing numeracy through cooking skills
Better Budgeting
Managing money, improving counting skills, banking, household budgeting, working out benefits
SQA Numeracy and Maths in the Workplace
Maths curriculum or basic numeracy class, exploring shapes, numbers, maps, and applying numeracy to real life
Bits, Bytes and Sums
Digital skills, computing, data, software, apps, charts
Make and Measure Woodwork
Plan, cost and measure materials, shapes,
units of measurement, building
Sewing and Mending
Measuring and costing materials, shapes, ordering
Numbers in retail
Employability skills, invoicing, accounting, ordering, contracts, counting, profit and transactions
Who are the courses for?
If you are aged 16 or over and don’t have at least a National 5, Standard Grade or O-Grade qualification in maths or arithmetic or if your qualification was some time ago, then you are eligible for a free training course. Want to find out more? Then read on.
