Multiply courses
All courses are free. Courses can fit around your life – part time, intensive, one-to-one, group, in person or online.
Green Issues
This is for anyone looking to learn more about the environment and climate change and how to make a difference in your local community. We'll be looking at what the statistics and data tell us about the climate crisis and what we can do about this. We all know what the statistics say but how do we understand and make sense of them? You don’t need to feel comfortable about numbers. If you have maths anxiety, this course will take you through numeracy at a gentle pace.
Coming soon on Microsoft Teams
Book Green Issues or email multiply@ea.edin.sch.uk
Edinburgh College courses
National 5 Application of Maths
Sighthill Campus, starts Tuesday 27 August until March 2025
There will be two sessions a week on a Tuesday and a Thursday from 4pm to 6pm. You must attend both days. The course will run for 3 terms and there wil be extra work over and above the four hours each week.
This course applies numerical skills in personal, workplace, social and educational situations that involve graphical information, calculations and solving problems. The focus of the course is on transferable numeracy skills - using number skills, understanding and using graphs, tables, charts and diagrams.
Book your space on National 5 Application of Maths
Online courses
Getting the best from your bank account
Setting up a bank account, online banking, switching accounts, savings accounts, apps, bank cards, direct debits and standing orders.
Monday 20 January, 6pm to 7.30pm
Book Getting the best from your bank account or email multiply@ea.edin.sch.uk
Shopping and budgeting
Getting good deals, working out discounts, cashback, supermarket tips, buying online, avoiding scams.
Monday 27 January, 6pm to 7.30pm
Book Shopping and budgeting or email multiply@ea.edin.sch.uk
Making sense of your pay slip
Pay, tax, National Insurance, union dues, pension contributions, other deductions, gross and nett pay, checking you’re getting paid the right amount.
Monday 3 February, 6pm to 7.30pm
Book Making sense of your payslip or email multiply@ea.edin.sch.uk
Pre-retirement planning
Pensions, tax, other plans.
Monday 10 February 6pm to 7.30pm
Book pre-retrirment planning or email multiply@ea.edin.sch.uk
Evening numeracy classes
How confident do you feel about maths learning? How confident do you feel about supporting your child’s maths? If the answer is ‘Not very’ then our FREE adult maths class is for you.
Tuesdays 5.30pm to 7.30pm
How to book: Michelle Johnston, Lifelong learning Development Officer, michelle.johnston@ea.edin.sch.uk, 078543 302383.
In person courses
Thursday numeracy group
How confident do you feel about maths learning? How confident do you feel about supporting your child’s maths? If the answer is ‘Not very’ then our FREE adult maths class is for you.
Thursdays 2pm to 4pm, Leith Education Community Centre
How to book: Michelle Johnston, Lifelong learning Development Officer, michelle.johnston@ea.edin.sch.uk, 078543 302383.
Supporting Children’s Numeracy Learning
Saturday 30 November, 10am to 1pm, St Thomas of Acquin’s High School
This course is aimed at parents of nursery and primary aged children and includes
- maths anxiety, what it is and how to recognise it in yourself and others, coping strategies and a growth mindset
- supporting early years and primary school number skills at home
- common difficulties in primary school, 8 times table, telling the time, fractions decimals and percentages.
To sign up please contact multiply@ea.edin.sch.uk