9010 – Mathematical Literacy Level 2

This unit standard is designed to provide credits towards the mathematical literacy requirements of the NQF at level 2. The essential purposes are that, as the learner progresses with confidence through the levels, the learner will grow in:

• An insightful use of mathematics in the management of the needs of everyday living to become a self-managing person.
• An understanding of mathematical applications that provides insight into the learner's present and future occupational experiences and so develop into a contributing worker.
• The ability to voice a critical sensitivity to the role of mathematics in a democratic society and so become a participating citizen.

People credited with this unit standard are able to:

• 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.

9012 – Mathematical Literacy Level 3

This unit standard is designed to provide credits towards the mathematical literacy requirement of the NQF at Level 3. The essential purposes are that, as the learner progresses with confidence through the levels, the learner will grow in:

• A confident, insightful use of mathematics in the management of the needs of everyday living to become a self-managing person.
• An understanding of mathematical applications that provides insight into the learner's present and future occupational experiences and so develop into a contributing worker.
• The ability to voice a critical sensitivity to the role of mathematics in a democratic society and so become a participating citizen.

People credited with this unit standard are able to:

• 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.

9013 – Mathematical Literacy Level 3 (Geometry & Measurement)

This unit standard is designed to provide credits towards the mathematical literacy requirements of the NQF at level 3. The essential purposes are that, as the learner progresses with confidence through the levels, the learner will grow in an insightful use of mathematics in the management of the needs of everyday living to become a self-managing person, an understanding of mathematical applications that provides insight into the learner's present and future occupational experiences and so develop into a contributing worker, the ability to voice a critical sensitivity to the role of mathematics in a democratic society and so become a participating citizen.

People credited with this unit standard are able to:

• Measure, estimate, and calculate physical quantities in practical situations relevant to adult life or the workplace.
• Explore, describe and represent, interpret and justify geometrical relationships and conjectures.
• Solve problems in two and three dimensional geometrical situations.

7456 – Financial Mathematics Fundamentals

This unit standard is useful to people aiming to achieve recognition at some level in Further Education and Training or to meet the Fundamental requirement of a wide range of qualifications registered on the National Qualifications Framework.

People credited with this unit standard are able to:

• Use mathematics to plan and control personal and/or household budgets, 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.