As taken from the CSEC Syllabus

Every citizen needs basic computational skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and the ability to use these mentally to solve everyday problems.  All citizens should recognise the importance of accuracy in computation as the foundation for deductions and decisions based on the results.  In addition, the citizen should have, where possible, a choice of mathematical techniques to be applied in a variety of situations.  A ‘range of mathematical techniques’ is therefore, specified in recognition of the need to accommodate different levels of ability. Citizens need to use Mathematics in many forms of decisionmaking: shopping, paying bills, budgeting and for the achievement of personal goals, critically evaluating advertisements, taxation, investing, commercial activities, banking, working with and using current technologies, measurements and understanding data in the media.  Improving efficiency and skills in these matters will be beneficial to the community as well as to the individual.