MATHEMATICAL LITERACY

GRADE 12
SCOPE
Paper 1 Paper 2
1. Finance 1. Measurement
 Financial documents  Unit conversions
 Tariffs systems  Length
 Telephone tariffs  Weight
 Electricity tariffs  Perimeter
 Water tariffs  Area
 Transport tariffs  Volume
 Income/expenditure, profit/loss, budgets  Temperature
 Cost price and Selling price  Time
 Break-even analysis 2. Maps, plans and other representations of the
 Interest physical world
 Simple and compound  Maps
 Banking, loans and investments  Scale
 Inflation  Ratio/ Number scale
 Taxation  Bar scale
 VAT  Plans
 Income tax  Models
 Exchange rates  Packaging
2. Data handling 3. Probability
 Data collection  Expressions of probability
 Observation  fraction, decimal fraction or a percentage)
 Interview  Form of any number from 0 to 1
 Questionnaire  In words like (impossible, unlikely, even,
 Database likely or certain)
 Survey  Tree diagram/ Two-way table
 Data classification
 Prediction
 Categorical data
 Probability of events
 Numerical data (Either discrete or
 Probability of compound events
continuous)
 Data organisation
 Sort data (ascending order and descending
order)
 Frequency tables and tallies
 Summarising data
 Measure of central tendency (mean,
median, mode)
 Measure of spread (range, quartiles and
interquartile range)
 Data representation
 Pie charts
 Histograms
 Bar graphs
 Line graphs
 Interpret and analyse data
3. Probability
 Expressions of probability
 fraction, decimal fraction or a percentage)
 Form of any number from 0 to 1
 In words like (impossible, unlikely, even,
likely or certain)
 Tree diagram/ Two-way table
 Prediction
 Probability of events
 Probability of compound events