Grade 10 CAPS Curriculum

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Term 1

NUMBERS AND CALCULATIONS WITH NUMBERS

  • Number formats: (Caps page 28)
    • Decimal point/comma; thousand separators (1000, 1000 000, etc.);
    • Positive and negative numbers in contexts; conversions between number formats (e.g. dozen, over, century, etc.)
    • Time formats conversions (sec – min – hours – days – weeks – months – years – decade)
  • Operations (caps page 29)
    • With whole numbers and decimals with and without a calculator (BODMAS)
    • Using a calculator to find: square, cube, square root of a number
    • With fractions
  • Rounding, Ratio, Rates, Direct and Inverse proportion, Percentages (Caps page 30-35)
    • Rounding-off: to a specified number of decimal places, to the nearest whole number, up or down
    • Ratio’s: situations, formats and calculations
    • Rates: meaning, types and calculations
    • Percentage: notation and calculations;
    • Percentage increase and decrease calculations in contexts

PATTERNS RELATIONSHIPS & REPRESENTATIONS

  • Patterns and relationships: (Caps page 38)
    • Constant, direct proportion and inverse proportion relationships.
    • Tables with input and output values
  • Pattern and relationship representations: (caps page 39-42)
    • Table with dependent and independent values
    • Equations
    • Graphs
  • Interpretation:
    • Tables
    • Graphs (determine: dependent and independent values, zero values, min/max values, missing values)
    • Write a story from a graph or draw a graph from a story

DATA HANDELING

  • Data: (Caps pages 83-84)
    • Developing questions.
    • Collecting data
    • Classifying and organizing data.
    • Summarising data.
      • Mean
      • Median
      • Mode
      • Range
    • Analyse data represented by the above

Term 2

FINANCE

  • Financial documents
    • House hold bills
    • Shopping doc
    • Banking doc
    • Household budget
    • Terminology used in above documents
  • Tariff systems
    • Municipal tariff
    • Telephone tariff
    • Transport tariff
    • Bank fees
  • Calculate:
    • Cost using tariff and /or formula
  • Draw & interpret graphs of various tariffs system

MEASUREMENT

  • Conversions (CAPS: Pg 63)
    • Metric system
    • Conversion using factors/tables.
  • Operations with numbers:
    • Multiplication and division by: 10, 100,1000 without calculator.
  • Measuring & estimating
    • Length
    • Distance
    • Weight/mass
    • Volume
    • Temperature
    • Time
  • Calculate costs of products and services.

MAPS, PLANS & OTHER REPRESENTATIONS

  • Scale (CAPS: Pg 73)
    • Use Scale in the form: 1:500 and bar scales to:
    • Calculate actual distance and length from the given map/plan measurements.
  • Maps (CAPS: Pg 74 – 75)
    • Describe position of an object (e.g. building) in relation to surrounding.
    • Describe position of a building) in relation to surrounding buildings
    • Find location, Follow & develop directions
    • Direction indicators (left, right, along, up, down, etc.)
    • House building numbering
    • Numbering system used for sitting in sport stadiums

PROBABILITY

  • Expression of probability (CAPS: Pg 91 – 93(
    • Events and outcomes/results
  • Prediction
    • Relative frequency & theoretical probability of an event
  • Tree diagrams and Two-way tables
  • CAPS: Pg 91 – 93

Term 3

FINANCE (CAPS: Pg 51 -52)

  • Income, expenditure, profit/loss, income-and-expenditure statements and budgets:
    • Perform calculations involving all of the above.
    • Identify fixed, variable and occasional income and expenditure values from financial documents.
    • Analyse and prepare income – and – expenditure statements and budgets
  • Interest (CAPS: Pg 54, 58)
    • Distinguish between interest rate and interest
    • Calculate interest and interest rate
  • Taxation
    • Determine VAT in the context of shop purchases, till slips and bills.
    • Calculate VAT inclusive/exclusive prices

MEASUREMENT

  • Calculate (CAPS: Pg 68 -69)
    • Perimeter
    • Area
    • Volume
      (of rectangles, triangles and circles(quarter, semi and three-quarters) using formulae)
    • Cost of products
  • Solve problems and complete tasks/projects.

MAPS, PLANS & OTHER REPRESENTATIONS

  • Plans (CAPS: Pg 76 – 80)
    • Floor plans and design:
      • Understand the symbol & notation used on plans.
      • Describe what is being represented
      • Analyse layout of shown in plan & suggest alternative layout option
      • Determine actual length on plans using measurements and given scale
      • Determine quantity of material needed by using the plans perimeter, area and volume calculations
      • Draw 2D floor plans for familiar structures.
    • Assembly diagrams
    • Models
      • Packaging of cams and/or boxes for optimal use of space.
      • Determine the most cost-effective way of packaging a number of cans and/or boxes

Term 4

FINANCE (CAPS: Pg 55)

  • Banking, loans & investments.
  • Understand terminology in the banking documents
  • Determine bank charges for different bank account types.
  • Draw graphs from given bank charges.

DATA HANDLING

  • Summarising data. (CAPS: Pg 84)
    • Mean
    • Median
    • Mode
    • Range
  • Analyse data represented by the above
  • Representing data (CAPS: Pg 86 – 87)
    • Pie chart
    • Histogram
    • Single bar graph
    • Line and broken line graph
  • Analyse data represented by the previous graphs.