Finance: Financial documents
Tax documents (tax rate tables, IRP5, employee income tax) and loan documents (bank statements, loan institutions showing changes on loan agreements).
Grade 12 Mathematical Literacy
Annual Teaching Plan (Terms 1-4)
Grade 12 Mathematical Literacy CAPS focuses on real-life maths in finance, data handling, probability, measurement, and maps/plans. The Grade 12 Mathematical Literacy syllabus below follows the South African CAPS annual teaching plan and supports exam readiness using past papers and term-based revision.
How to study using this page: Revise term topics attempt past papers mark with memos.
Term 1 topics
Weeks 1-11
Assessment: Investigation and controlled test.
Finance: Taxation
Personal income tax, taxable and non-taxable income, rebates, UIF (maximum amount), and VAT (15%).
Finance: Tariff systems
Compare two or more tariffs: electricity, telephone, municipal, bank, and transport tariffs using tables, graphs, and formulae.
Finance: Income, expenditure, profit and loss
Large organisations and fundraising projects; compare income/expenditure/profit values over two years; budgets showing projected vs actual, expenditure and profit/loss values.
Finance: Cost price and selling price
Cost of producing/manufacturing, appropriate selling price, percentage profit, and break-even analysis (determine break-even values from formulae and graphs).
Data handling: Developing questions and collecting data
Develop questions on national and global issues; collect data using instruments (interview questions, questionnaires, recording sheets).
Data handling: Classifying, organising and summarising data
Sort numerical and categorical data using categories and class intervals, tallies and frequency tables. Quartiles, inter-quartile range, measures of central tendency and spread, and percentiles.
Data handling: Representing and analysing data
Pie charts, histograms, bar graphs, line and broken-line graphs, scatter plots, and box-and-whisker plots.
Probability
Probability of simple events (dice, coin games, national lotteries, gambling, insurance risk assessment), relative frequency and theoretical probability, compound events, tree diagrams, and two-way tables.
Finance: Interest and banking
Hire purchase, residual, balloon, loans, interest rate, interest, and repayment.
Finance: Banking
Investments and insurance plans (interest, interest rate, charges, monthly payment).
Finance: Inflation
Buying power over time, prices of items over time (interpret and analyse graphs), exchange rates, and currency relationships and buying power.
Finance: Financial documents
Tax documents (tax rate tables, IRP5, employee income tax) and loan documents (bank statements, loan institutions showing changes on loan agreements).
Finance: Taxation
Personal income tax, taxable and non-taxable income, rebates, UIF (maximum amount), and VAT (15%).
Finance: Tariff systems
Compare two or more tariffs: electricity, telephone, municipal, bank, and transport tariffs using tables, graphs, and formulae.
Finance: Income, expenditure, profit and loss
Large organisations and fundraising projects; compare income/expenditure/profit values over two years; budgets showing projected vs actual, expenditure and profit/loss values.
Finance: Cost price and selling price
Cost of producing/manufacturing, appropriate selling price, percentage profit, and break-even analysis (determine break-even values from formulae and graphs).
Data handling: Developing questions and collecting data
Develop questions on national and global issues; collect data using instruments (interview questions, questionnaires, recording sheets).
Data handling: Classifying, organising and summarising data
Sort numerical and categorical data using categories and class intervals, tallies and frequency tables. Quartiles, inter-quartile range, measures of central tendency and spread, and percentiles.
Data handling: Representing and analysing data
Pie charts, histograms, bar graphs, line and broken-line graphs, scatter plots, and box-and-whisker plots.
Probability
Probability of simple events (dice, coin games, national lotteries, gambling, insurance risk assessment), relative frequency and theoretical probability, compound events, tree diagrams, and two-way tables.
Finance: Interest and banking
Hire purchase, residual, balloon, loans, interest rate, interest, and repayment.
Finance: Banking
Investments and insurance plans (interest, interest rate, charges, monthly payment).
Finance: Inflation
Buying power over time, prices of items over time (interpret and analyse graphs), exchange rates, and currency relationships and buying power.
Term 2 topics
Weeks 1-11
Assessment: Assignment and mid-year examinations.
Measurement: Conversions
Conversion factors and tables; metric to imperial and vice versa; deg C to deg F and vice versa.
Measurement: Time
Timetables and transport (bus, train, taxi), production (e.g., building a house), and tide.
Measurement: Perimeter and area
Length, distance and time; perimeter and area. Note: cost calculations may apply.
Measurement: Volume and surface area
Surface area, volume, rate (speed, costing), and mass (weight). Note: cost calculations may apply.
BMI
BMI formula (BMI = kg/m^2) and interpreting charts.
Scale
Scale (ratio, bar); determine actual lengths/distances from a given scale; determine a scale for drawings/models; determine a scale to draw a diagram or construct a model.
Maps
Grid reference, compass directions, and slope on a map.
Revision
Finance, data handling, measurements, scale and maps.
Mid-year examinations (two papers)
Paper 1: 100 marks, 2 hours. Q1: 20% (level 1); Q2: Finance; Q3: Data handling; Q4-5: Integration of finance, data handling and probability. Paper 2: 100 marks, 2 hours. Q1: 20% (level 1); Q2: Maps and plans; Q3: Measurements; Q4-5: Integration of maps and plans, measurements and probability.
Measurement: Conversions
Conversion factors and tables; metric to imperial and vice versa; deg C to deg F and vice versa.
Measurement: Time
Timetables and transport (bus, train, taxi), production (e.g., building a house), and tide.
Measurement: Perimeter and area
Length, distance and time; perimeter and area. Note: cost calculations may apply.
Measurement: Volume and surface area
Surface area, volume, rate (speed, costing), and mass (weight). Note: cost calculations may apply.
BMI
BMI formula (BMI = kg/m^2) and interpreting charts.
Scale
Scale (ratio, bar); determine actual lengths/distances from a given scale; determine a scale for drawings/models; determine a scale to draw a diagram or construct a model.
Maps
Grid reference, compass directions, and slope on a map.
Revision
Finance, data handling, measurements, scale and maps.
Mid-year examinations (two papers)
Paper 1: 100 marks, 2 hours. Q1: 20% (level 1); Q2: Finance; Q3: Data handling; Q4-5: Integration of finance, data handling and probability. Paper 2: 100 marks, 2 hours. Q1: 20% (level 1); Q2: Maps and plans; Q3: Measurements; Q4-5: Integration of maps and plans, measurements and probability.
Term 3 topics
Weeks 1-11
Assessment: Controlled test and preparatory examination.
Maps, plans and other representations of the physical world
Plans: diagrams (assembly instructions in manuals), plans (symbols/notation/terminology), determine actual dimensions using a given scale, determine a suitable scale to draw a plan, draw 2D floor and elevation plans. Models: solving packaging problems, 3D scale models, 2D pictures (item arrangement, estimate material quantities).
Revision
Finance, data handling, probability, measurements, maps and plans, probability.
Preparatory examinations (two papers)
Paper 1: 150 marks, 3 hours. Q1: 20% (level 1); Q2: Finance; Q3: Data handling; Q4-5: Integration of finance, data handling and probability. Paper 2: 150 marks, 3 hours. Q1: 20% (level 1); Q2: Maps and plans; Q3: Measurements; Q4-5: Integration of maps and plans, measurements and probability.
Maps, plans and other representations of the physical world
Plans: diagrams (assembly instructions in manuals), plans (symbols/notation/terminology), determine actual dimensions using a given scale, determine a suitable scale to draw a plan, draw 2D floor and elevation plans. Models: solving packaging problems, 3D scale models, 2D pictures (item arrangement, estimate material quantities).
Revision
Finance, data handling, probability, measurements, maps and plans, probability.
Preparatory examinations (two papers)
Paper 1: 150 marks, 3 hours. Q1: 20% (level 1); Q2: Finance; Q3: Data handling; Q4-5: Integration of finance, data handling and probability. Paper 2: 150 marks, 3 hours. Q1: 20% (level 1); Q2: Maps and plans; Q3: Measurements; Q4-5: Integration of maps and plans, measurements and probability.
Term 4 revision focus
Weeks 1-10
Assessment: Final examination.
Resources: CAPS document, CAPS aligned textbooks, examination guidelines, Mind the Gap, DBE self-study guides, DBE terminology booklet. Informal assessment: revise exemplar papers and previous NSC question papers. No SBA task for Term 4.
Revision
Finance, data handling, measurements, maps and plans, probability.
Final examination (two papers)
Paper 1: 150 marks, 3 hours. Q1: 20% (level 1); Q2: Finance; Q3: Data handling; Q4-5: Integration of finance, data handling and probability. Paper 2: 150 marks, 3 hours. Q1: 20% (level 1); Q2: Maps and plans; Q3: Measurements; Q4-5: Integration of maps and plans, measurements and probability.
Revision
Finance, data handling, measurements, maps and plans, probability.
Final examination (two papers)
Paper 1: 150 marks, 3 hours. Q1: 20% (level 1); Q2: Finance; Q3: Data handling; Q4-5: Integration of finance, data handling and probability. Paper 2: 150 marks, 3 hours. Q1: 20% (level 1); Q2: Maps and plans; Q3: Measurements; Q4-5: Integration of maps and plans, measurements and probability.