2025 Grade 12 Mathematics

2025 National ATP: MATHEMATICS GRADE 12 – TERM 1

TERM 1 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11
Number patterns, sequences and series Functions: Formal definition; inverses, exponential and logarithmic Trigonometry
Topics
Date completed 15/01/25 – 7/2/2025 (18 days): 4,5 h per week * 4 weeks = 18 h 10/02/2025 – 28/02/2025 (15 days): 4,5 h per week * 3 weeks = 13.5 h 3/03/2025 – 28/03/2025 (19 days): 4,5 h per week * 4 weeks = 18 h
SBA Investigation (must be completed before the end of week 6) Test (content term 1)

2025 National ATP: MATHEMATICS GRADE 12 – TERM 2

Week
TERM 2 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12
9

Topics Euclidean Geometry Analytical Geometry Differential Calculus including Polynomials

8/04/2025 – 17/4/2025 (8 days) 22/4/2025 – 6/5/2025 (9 days) 7/5/2025 – 6/06/2025 (23 days) 9/6/2025 – 27/06/2025 (14 days)
Date completed
4,5 h per week * 2 weeks = 9 h 4,5 h per week * 2 weeks = 9 h 4,5 h per week * 5 weeks = 22.5 h
SBA Assignment (must be complete before the end of week 6) JUNE EXAM / CONTROL TEST

2025 National ATP: MATHEMATICS GRADE 12 – TERM 3

TERM 3 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11
Finance, growth and decay
Topics Statistics Counting and Probability Revision
(continuation)
22/7/2025 – 8/8/2025 (14 days): 4,5 h per week * 3 weeks = 13.5 h 11/8/2025 – 22/8/2025 (10 days) 25/8/2025 – 5/9/2025 (10 days)
Date completed 8/9/2025 – 3/10/2025 (19 days)
4,5 h per week * 2 weeks = 9 h 4,5 h per week * 2 weeks = 9 h
SBA Test (must be complete before the end of week 6) TRIAL EXAMINATION

2025 National ATP: MATHEMATICS GRADE 12 – TERM 4

TERM 4 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 EXAM
Topics Revision Final Examination PAPER 1 150 marks 3 hours

Algebraic expressions, equations 25

and inequalities
13/10/2025 – 7/11/2025 (20 days) Number patterns 25
SBA 10/11/2025 – 10/11/2025 (25 days) Functions and graphs 35
Finance, growth and decay 15
Differential Calculus 35
Counting Principle and Probability 15
PAPER 2 150 marks 3 hours
TOTAL NUMBER OF SBA TASKS 6
Term 1 Investigation (15%) and Test (15%) Statistics 20
Term 2 Assignment (15%) and June Exam/ Control Test (15%) Analytical Geometry 40
Term 3 Test (15 %) and Trial (25 %) Trigonometry 50
Term 4 Final Examination Euclidean Geometry 40

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2025 National ATP: MATHEMATICS GRADE 12 – TERM 1

TERM 1 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11

Topics Patterns, sequences and series Functions Trigonometry

1. Patterns: Revise number patterns leading to those where there is a 1. Definition of a function. 1. Compound angle identities:
constant second difference between consecutive terms, and the general sin(   ) = sin  cos   sin  cos 
term is therefore quadratic. 2. General concept of the inverse of a function and how the domain of the cos(   ) = cos  cos   sin  sin 
function may need to be restricted (in order to obtain a one-to-one
2. Number patterns, including arithmetic and geometric sequences and function) to ensure that the inverse is a function. sin 2 = 2 sin  cos 
series cos 2 = cos  − sin 
2 2

3. Determine and sketch graphs of the inverses of the functions defined by

= 2 cos  − 1
2
3. Sigma notation 𝑦 = 𝑎𝑥 + 𝑞;
𝑦 = 𝑎𝑥 2 = 1 − 2 sin 2 
4. Derivation and application of the formulae for the sum of arithmetic 𝑦 = 𝑏 𝑥 ; 𝑏 > 0; 𝑏 ≠ 1
and geometric series: Focus on the following characteristics: 2. Revise the proof of the sine, cosine and area rules.
𝑛 𝑛
4.1 𝑆𝑛 = [2𝑎 + (𝑛 − 1)𝑑]; 𝑆𝑛 = (𝑎 + 𝑙) domain and range, intercepts with the axes, turning points, minima,
2 2
maxima, asymptotes (horizontal and vertical), shape and symmetry, 3. Solve problems in two and three dimensions applying the sine, cosine and area rules.
𝑎(𝑟 𝑛 −1) average gradient (average rate of change), intervals on which the function
4.2 𝑆𝑛 = ; (𝑟 ≠ 1); and increases /decreases.
𝑟−1

𝑎
4.3 𝑆𝑛 = ; (−1 < 𝑟 < 1), (𝑟 ≠ 1) 4. Revision of the exponential function and the exponential laws and graph of
1−𝑟
the function defined by y = bx where b  0 and b  0

5. Understand the definition of a logarithm:

y = logb x  x = b y where b  0 and b 1

6. The graph of the function, 𝑦 = 𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑏 𝑥 for both the cases

0 < 𝑏 < 1 and 𝑏 > 1.
Date
completed
SBA Investigation & Test (content term 1)

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2025 Grade 12 Mathematics
2025 National ATP: MATHEMATICS GRADE 12 – TERM 2

TERM 2 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 -6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12

Topics Euclidean Geometry Analytical Geometry Differential Calculus including Polynomials JUNE EXAMINATION / CONTROL TEST
1. Revise earlier work on the necessary 1. Revise the following including grade 10 1. Factorise third-degree polynomials. Apply the Remainder and Factor
and sufficient conditions for polygons to concepts: Theorems to polynomials of degree at most 3 (no proofs required).
be similar. • the equation of a line through two given
points; 2. An intuitive understanding of the limit concept, in the context of
2. Prove (accepting results established in • the equation of a line through one point and approximating the rate of change or gradient of a function at a point.
earlier grades): parallel or perpendicular to a given line;
• that a line drawn parallel to one side and 3. Use limits to define the derivative of a function f at any 𝑥 :
of a triangle divides the other two • The inclination (θ) of a line, where f ( x + h) − f ( x )
f ( x) = lim
sides proportionally (and the Mid- 𝑚 = tan 𝜃 is the gradient of the line h →0 h
point Theorem as a special case of (0° ≤ 𝜃 ≤ 180° ) Generalise to find the derivative of f at any point x in the domain of f ,
the converse of this theorem); i.e., define the derivative function f '(x) of the function f (x) .
• that equiangular triangles are similar; 2. Apply the equation Understand intuitively that f '(a) is the gradient of the tangent to the
• that triangles with sides in (𝑥 − 𝑎)2 + (𝑦 − 𝑏)2 = 𝑟 2 graph of f at the point with x -coordinate a.
proportion are similar; and that defines a circle with radius r and centre
• the Pythagorean Theorem by similar (a ; b). 4. Using the definition (first principle), determine the derivative, f '(x)
triangles where a, b and c are constants:
3. Determine the equation of a tangent to a given 4.1 f ( x) = ax 2 + bx + c ;
circle. 4.2 f ( x) = ax3 ;
4.3 f ( x ) = a and
x
4.4 f (x) = c.
𝑑
5. Use the formula, (𝑎𝑥 𝑛 ) = 𝑎𝑛𝑥 𝑛−1
𝑑𝑥
(for any real number n) together with the rules
5.1 d [ f ( x)  g ( x)] = d [ f ( x)]  d [ g ( x)]
dx dx dx
and
d d
5.2 [kf ( x)] = k [ f ( x)], (k a constant)
dx dx

6. Determine equations of tangents to graphs of functions.

7. Introduce the second derivative

𝑑
𝑓 ′′ (𝑥) = 𝑑𝑥 (𝑓 ′ (𝑥)) of f (x)
and how it determines the concavity of a function.

8. Sketch graphs of cubic polynomial functions using differentiation to

determine the coordinates of stationary points, and points of
inflection (where concavity changes). Also, determine the x -
intercepts of the graph using the factor theorem and other techniques.

9. Solve practical problems concerning optimisation and rate of change,

including calculus of motion.
Date completed

SBA Assignment JUNE EXAM / CONTROL TEST

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2025 National ATP: MATHEMATICS GRADE 12 – TERM 3

TERM 3 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11
Topics Finance, growth and decay Statistics Counting and Probability Revision TRIAL EXAMINATION
1. Revise and use simple and compound growth and 1. Revise: 1. Revise,
decay formulae: • Histograms • the identity:
𝐴 = 𝑃(1 ± 𝑖𝑛) and 𝐴 = 𝑃(1 ± 𝑖)𝑛 • Frequency polygons P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) − P(A and B)
• Ogives (cumulative frequency curves) • the addition rule for mutually exclusive
to solve problems (including straight line, • Variance and standard deviation of ungrouped events: P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B)
depreciation and depreciation on a reducing data • the complementary rule:
balance). • Symmetric and skewed data P(not A) = 1 − P(A)
• Identification of outliers. • identifying dependent and independent events
2. Solve problems involving present value and future and,
value annuities. 2. Use statistical summaries, scatterplots, regression • the product rule for independent events:
(in particular the least squares regression line) and P(A and B) = P(A) × P(B)
3. Make use of logarithms to calculate the value of n, correlation to analyse and make meaningful • the use of Venn diagrams to solve probability
the time period, in the equations comments on the context associated with given problems, deriving and applying formulae for
bivariate data, including interpolation, extrapolation any three events A, B and C in a sample space
𝐴 = 𝑃(1 + 𝑖)𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝐴 = 𝑃(1 − 𝑖)𝑛 . and discussions on skewness. S.
• the use of tree diagrams for the probability of
4. Critically analyse investment and loan options and
consecutive or simultaneous events which are
make informed decisions as to best option(s)
not necessarily independent.
(including pyramid)
2. Apply the fundamental counting principle to solve
probability problems

3. Probability problems using Venn diagrams, tree

diagrams, two-way contingency tables and other
techniques (like the Fundamental Counting
Principle) to solve probability problems (where
events are not necessarily independent).
Date completed

SBA Test TRIAL EXAMINATION

2025 National ATP: MATHEMATICS GRADE 12 – TERM 4

TERM 4 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 EXAM
Topics Revision Final Examination PAPER 1 150 marks 3 hours Marks
Algebraic expressions, equations 25
and inequalities
Number patterns 25
Functions and graphs 35
Finance, growth and decay 15
Differential Calculus 35
Counting Principle and Probability 15
TOTAL NUMBER OF SBA TASKS 6 PAPER 2 150 marks 3 hours Marks
Term 1 Investigation / Project 15%) and Test (15%) Statistics 20
Term 2 Assignment (15%), June Exam/ Control Test (15%) Analytical Geometry 40
Term 3 Test (15 %) and Trial (25 %) Euclidean Geometry 40
Term 4 Final Examination Trigonometry 50