Apply Mathematical Communication Skills within the Cannabis Sector

Unit Standard 7469:  Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal and community life

This unit standard will be useful to people who aim 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 and 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.

Unit Standard 12444: Measure, estimate and calculate physical quantities and explore, describe and represent geometrical relationships in 2-dimensions in different life or workplace contexts

This unit standard is designed to provide credits towards the mathematical literacy requirements of the NQF at level 2. 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 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