National 4 Applications of Mathematics

Working out a financial position from budget information: balancing income and outgoings.

The factors that affect someone's pay: basic pay, overtime, deductions, and take-home pay.

Comparing products using given information, and converting between currencies.

How interest rates affect savings and borrowing, and comparing different offers.

Using statistics to understand risk, and how sample size and bias can affect data.

Frequency tables, bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, scattergraphs and lines of best fit, and comparing data using mean and range.

Solving problems with time intervals, and constructing a scale drawing from a given scale.

Plotting a course using bearings and distance, and packing containers using a first-fit algorithm.

Calculating perimeter, area, and volume for real-life shapes and objects.

Finding the gradient of a slope, using Pythagoras' theorem, and applying a scale factor.

Selecting appropriate units and notation, and carrying out real-life calculations with percentages and rates.

Extracting information from graphs and tables, explaining decisions based on measurements and data, and using probability to make and explain decisions.