CSEC Mathematics case studies
CSEC Mathematics · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) is the regional secondary-level qualification awarded by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC®). Mathematics sits within the Mathematics and Science subject group, one of 33 subjects currently offered - 28 at General Proficiency and 5 at Technical Proficiency. The CSEC Mathematics case studies are 5 cases and about 3,779 words.
1The Delivery Van: Two Financing Offers
Marcia runs a small bakery and needs a delivery van with a cash price of 48,000. She has 10,000 in savings and two written offers on the table.
713 words, about 4 min2The Raised Garden Bed: Area, Edging and a Budget Overrun
A school's agricultural club is building a raised garden bed. The design is a rectangle 6 m long and 4 m wide, with a semicircle joined onto one of the 4 m sides, so that the diameter of the semicircle equals that side.
747 words, about 4 min3The Project Survey: A Missing Frequency and a Data Entry Error
Thirty students in a Form 5 class recorded the number of hours each spent on a mathematics project during one week. The teacher spilled coffee on one entry of the summary table: Hours 0 1 2 3 4 5 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Number of students 3 8 x 7 4 2 The teacher is certain the class has exactly 30 students and that the hours were recorded in whole numbers only, but cannot recover x from memory.
750 words, about 4 min4Kareem's Kandle Kitchen: Break-Even, a New Fixed Cost and a Hotel Deal
Kareem's Kandle Kitchen makes scented candles. His fixed monthly costs (rent, insurance, equipment) total 450.
773 words, about 4 min5The Fair Stall: Set Logic, Probability and a Pricing Decision
At a school fair a stall offers a prize to a student drawn at random. A poster put up by Form 5A (35 students) states: '20 of us study Mathematics, 18 study English, and 8 study neither.' A poster from Form 5B (25 students) states: '14 study Mathematics, 12 study English, and 5 study both.' Every student in both classes studies at least one subject, but the two posters count only Mathematics and English.
796 words, about 4 min