Tuesday, 19 November 2013

9b Computer Science

LO: To understand how to turn denary numbers in to binary numbers.

Starter: 
What are the answers to the following questions?

2^0 = 

2^1 = 

2^2 = 

2^3 =

Main:
On your post-it note, write down any of them that you do not know the answer to:

  1. What does the term denary mean?
  2. What does the term binary mean?
  3. How can we turn a denary number in to a binary number?
Task:
Denary means...
Binary means...

As a class we are going to complete the worksheet.

Plenary:
If we wanted to be able to write someone's dates of birth, how many bits would we need?
If we wanted a different number to represent everyday of the year, how many bits would we need?