Peer tutoring and teaching · Maths CAS idea
Volunteer with an adult numeracy group
ServiceProject-ready
Support an existing adult education or community group where adults improve everyday maths: budgeting, measurements, percentages.
Where the maths comes in
Practical arithmetic, percentages and money maths, explained with respect and patience.
Which CAS strand it fits
- Service: Unpaid, voluntary work with others that also has a learning benefit for you.
Your CAS coordinator decides how an experience counts at your school. Strand summaries are provisional (our words, being checked).
How to run it
- With your CAS coordinator, contact an organisation that already runs such a group.
- Ask the organiser what learners need and what your role is.
- Attend regularly and follow the organiser's lead.
- Reflect with the organiser on how you helped.
This can grow into a CAS project if your CAS coordinator agrees: see planning a maths CAS project.
How to evidence it
- Agreement with the organisation
- Attendance log
- Organiser's comments
Date everything and keep it in your school's CAS portfolio as you go. More on what counts as evidence.
Reflection prompts
Questions to think about, not answers to copy. Write your reflections in your own words, in whatever form your school accepts.
- What assumptions did you have about adult learners, and did they change?
- How did the organiser's knowledge shape what you did?
- What did you learn about how numeracy affects everyday life?
Learning outcomes this often gives a chance to show
- Global significance. How does the local need you worked on connect to a wider issue? What did you learn about that issue that you did not know before?
- Ethics. What choice in this experience had a right and a wrong way to do it? Whose interests did you have to protect (privacy, safety, fairness), and how?
- Collaboration. What did someone else bring that you could not have done alone? Describe a disagreement or a mix-up in the team. How was it resolved?
Whether you meet an outcome depends on what you actually do and reflect on, not on the idea. Outcome labels are our short summaries, being checked.
Safety and ethics
- Work through the organisation's own volunteering and safeguarding processes.
- Treat learners' personal circumstances as confidential.
Agree every plan with your CAS coordinator first. Safety and ethics for maths CAS.
Planning sessions? Our free standard lessons show one way to structure a topic.