MATHEMATICS Literacy
Term 1
GRADE 10
2026
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Numbers and Calculations ..................................................................................................... 2
WCDE MATHEMATICAL LITERACY REVISION BOOKLET 2025 TERM 1.................................. 2
MATHEMATICAL LITERACY BASELINE ASSESSMENT DBE_2025 Question 1 ......................... 8
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Gr 10 MAL 2024 T1_2024 Question 1...................................................................................10
Patterns, Relationships and Representations........................................................................11
MATHEMATICAL LITERACY BASELINE ASSESSMENT DBE_2025 Question 2 ........................11
WCDE MATHEMATICAL LITERACY REVISION BOOKLET 2025 TERM 1.................................12
Data Handling and Statistics .................................................................................................15
WCDE MATHEMATICAL LITERACY REVISION BOOKLET 2025 TERM 1.................................15
IMPAQ June Examination 2023 P1/2 QUESTION 2 .............................................................20
Financial Documents and Tariff Systems...............................................................................22
IMPAQ Gr 10 MAL 2024 T1_2024 Question 2.1 ...................................................................22
IMPAQ June Examination 2023 P1/2 QUESTION 1.1 ..........................................................24
Measurement – Conversions and Time .................................................................................25
Gr 10 MAL 2024 T1_2024 Question 2.2, 2.3 & 3 ..................................................................25
IMPAQ June Examination 2023 P1/2 QUESTION 3 .............................................................28
IMPAQ June Examination 2023 P2/2 QUESTION 1 .............................................................30
IMPAQ June Examination 2023 P2/2 QUESTION 2.2 ..........................................................32
IMPAQ June Examination 2023 P2/2 QUESTION 3.2 ..........................................................33
Numbers and Calculations
BASIC SKILLS YOU NEED TO MASTER:
1. Calculating & estimating without a calculator
2. Understand numbering conventions in context.
3. Converting between fractions, decimals & percentage.
4. Find square root, cube root, square & cube values.
5. Performing calculations with brackets and using the correct order
of operations.
WCDE MATHEMATICAL LITERACY REVISION BOOKLET 2025 TERM 1
Write the following values in word format:
1.1) The population of South Africa in 2020 was 59.31 million.
1.2) The population of Johannesburg in 2021 was 5,926,668.
1.3) Number of students at UCT in 2021: 28,703 thousand.
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1.4) Two movies grossed the following income at the box office: $224 million
and $198 million. Write down the total amount earned in dollars.
2. Briefly explain the meaning of the values in the following scenarios:
2.1 2.2
Extract from:
Cheque Account Statement
Salary R15 000
EFT: Rent R 5 6 00 -
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Round 4 862,749 off to…
a) The nearest whole number
b) The nearest hundred
c) The nearest fifty
d) Two decimal places
2) Susan must wrap presents. Each present requires 70 cm
of wrapping paper. She has a 5 m roll. Determine the
number of presents she can wrap with one roll.
3) For a picnic Mbali wants to give each attendee 3 slices
of pizza. There are 15 people attending and each pizza
can be cut into 8 slices. Calculate how many pizzas she will need to buy.
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Ratio
1.a) Determine the ratio of purple sweets to pink
sweets.
1.b) Determine the total number of sweets.
1.c) Write an equivalent ratio of the number of
pink to purple sweets.
1.d) Write the unit ratio of pink to purple sweets.
2. Quinton wants to divide R 1750 between him
and his two colleagues Peter and Sam in the ratio 1:2:4.
Calculate how much each person will receive.
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3. Magalies makes a concentrated juice blend. It is sold in a 5
ℓ bottle. The concentrate must be mixed as followed “one
part concentrate to five parts water.”
a) Write the ratio of concentrate to water.
b) Calculate how many litres of water will be needed to make the entire bottle of
concentrate into a juice mix.
c) Determine the number of litres of mixed juice can you make with 3 bottles of
concentrate.
4. Inakho owns an ice cream store. The general ice cream sales trend for
Strawberry: Chocolate and vanilla can be summarized as 3:5:2.
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