US 115359

This unit standard is designed to provide credits towards the mathematical literacy requirements of the NQF at level 4. The essential purposes of the mathematical literacy requirements 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 provide 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.

Qualifying learners are able to:

• Explain different errors found in the computer programming environment, and differentiate it from mistakes.
• Demonstrate how calculation errors are induced in the computer.
• Demonstrate how computer errors can be minimised.

US 115367

People credited with this unit standard are able to:

• Describe different approaches to problem solving
• Use logical operations in descriptions of rules and relationships in problem situations
• Simplify Boolean expressions with Boolean Algebra and Karnaugh maps
• Describe the basic concepts of error detection

US 115362

People credited with this unit standard are able to:

• Locate software development source files
• Retrieve software development source files for update purposes