Please note: We are currently working on updating this course and a newer version will be available at the same link on Thursday 19 August 2021. As a result, this current version will be deleted from OpenLearn on Wednesday 18 August 2021, so if you are currently studying this course, please make sure you complete the course and download your statement of participation before this date. You can however, study the new course and receive a new statement of participation upon completion.

Gain the necessary skills to manage your personal finances: managing budgets, debts, investments, property purchase, pensions and insurance.

The government has been gathering data about household outgoings for six decades. It tracks social and structural changes  over those times, says the ONS' Joanna Bulman.

This free course, Everyday maths 1, is designed to bring your learning to life, inspiring you to improve your current maths skills or helping you to remember any areas that you may have forgotten. Working through the examples and interactive activities in this course will help you to, among other things, run a household or make progress in your career.

This free course will develop and improve your essential maths skills for work, study and everyday life. The course has four sessions, which cover the following topics: numbers, measurement, shapes and space, and handling data. There will be plenty of examples to help you progress, together with opportunities to practise your understanding.

A Welsh-language version of this course is also hosted on OpenLearn Cymru.

Everyday maths 1 was written by Bedford College Group in partnership with Middlesbrough College, West Herts College and The Open University, in collaboration with Coleg Cambria, Addysg Oedolion Cymru | Adult Learning Wales, Coleg Gwent and the NPTC Group of Colleges.