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Career Mode

KS2,Upper Key Stage 2
Maths

Career Mode

KS2, Upper Key Stage 2
Number and place value, Multiplication, Mathematical reasoning, Problem-solving

Football can enable children to recognise the importance of maths in real life situations and careers in innovative and exciting ways.

The Premier League Primary Stars Career Mode programme is designed as a targeted intervention for maths, split into six lessons, to reinforce learning pupils have already covered in regular numeracy lessons.

These fun and engaging resources encourage teamwork and a squad mentality, and embed key mathematical concepts alongside essential life skills such as problem solving, budgeting, planning and resilience.

What resources are in this pack?

Learning outcomes

Pupils will be able to practise their:

  • use of mathematical symbols
  • mental and written calculations
  • understanding of units of measure
  • understanding of statistics
  • understanding of percentages, fractions and decimals
  • area and perimeter skills
  • rounding and ordering skills
  • use of reasoning
  • problem solving.

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Business Manager

Pupils will learn about the career role of a Football Club Business Manager ​and present a pitch to new sponsors using information learned from tables and graphs.


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Community Manager

​Pupils will learn about the career role of a Football Club Community Manager and complete a budgeting task that involves addition and subtraction and calculating with money.


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Groundsperson

Pupils will learn about the career role of a Football Club Groundsperson and complete an area/perimeter based task, including long multiplication.


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Head Coach

Pupils will learn about the career role of a Football Club Head Coach and create a training timetable for the team, calculating with time.


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Physiotherapist

Pupils will learn about the career role of a Football Club Physiotherapist and respond to some questions they may be asked in their role, including calculating with time.


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Scout

​Pupils will learn about the career role of a Football Club Scout and complete a comparison task which will involve fractions, decimals and percentages.​


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Teacher Guide

This teacher guide provides additional information to support teachers in getting the most from this pack.