This unit standard is useful for people aiming to achieve recognition in Further Education and Training or to meet the Fundamental requirements of various National Qualifications Framework qualifications. Learners are able to use mathematics to plan and control personal and/or household budgets and income and expenditure; use simple and compound interest to understand and define situations such as investments, stokvels, inflation, appreciation, and depreciation; and investigate financial transactions including costs, prices, revenue, cost price, selling price, loss, and profit.
This unit standard supports learners aiming for recognition in Further Education and Training or to meet Fundamental requirements of various qualifications on the National Qualifications Framework. Learners will use and analyse computational tools and strategies, make estimates and approximations, demonstrate understanding of numbers and relationships among numbers and number systems, and represent numbers in different ways.
This unit standard provides credits towards the mathematical literacy requirements of the NQF at Level 2. It enables learners to grow in the insightful use of mathematics for managing everyday living needs, developing into self-managing persons and contributing workers. Learners will estimate, measure and calculate physical quantities in practical situations and explore transformations of two-dimensional geometric figures, fostering a critical sensitivity to the role of mathematics in a democratic society.
Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal and community life.
Demonstrate understanding of rational and irrational numbers and number systems.
Identify, describe, compare, classify, and explore shape and motion in 2- and 3-dimensional shapes in different contexts.
Work with a range of patterns and functions and solve related problems.
Basic English communication skills.
Basic math skills for daily use.
Basic computer usage skills.