This course promises to provide you an insightful use of mathematics in the management of the needs of everyday living to become a self-managing person. It will equip you to use mathematics to plan and control personal, regional and/or national budgets and income and expenditure.
- Convert numbers between the decimal number system and binary number system
- Work with numbers in different ways to express size/magnitude.
- Demonstrate the effect of error in calculations.
- Measure, estimate, and calculate physical quantities in practical situations relevant to the adult in life or the workplace
- Explore describe and represent, interpret and justify geometrical relationships and conjectures to solve problems in two and three dimensional geometrical situations.
- Pose questions, collect and organise data.
- Represent and interpret data using various techniques to investigate real life and work problems.
- Use random events to explore and apply probability concepts in simple life and work related situations.
- Use mathematics to plan and control personal and/or household budgets and income and expenditure.
- Use simple and compound interest to make sense of and define a variety of situations including investments, stokvels, inflation, appreciation and depreciation.
- Investigate various aspects of financial transactions including costs, prices, revenue, cost price, selling price, loss and profit.