Mathematical Literacy Study Guide for Papers 1&2 (Grade 10-12)

Calculator Work

BODMAS

Estimation

Rounding Off

Working with Formulae (Substitution)

Percentage

Ratio, Rate & Proportion

Finance (Personal and Business Budgets; Income & Expenditure; Profit; Interest; Taxation; Inflation; Changing Interest Rates; Currency Fluctuation & Exchange Rates)

Working with Graphs (The Cartesian Plane; Types of Graphs; Drawing Graphs; Reading from a Graph; Simultaneous Equations)

Conversions (Conversions within the Metric System; Conversions Between Different Systems)

Length, Distance, Perimeter of Common Polygons & Circles (Perimeter of a Circle – Circumference)

Area (Surface Area)

Volume

Mapwork (Grid References; Compass Directions; Giving Directions)

Scale

Working with Plans

Data Handling (Collecting Data; Organising the Data; Displaying the Data; Analysing the Data)

Probability (Simple Notions of Probability; Calculating Probability of Multiple Events; Using Probability to Predict Outcomes; Tree Diagrams; Contingency Tables)