Year 8 – Lesson 4 – Numbers in binary
Learners build upon their familiarity with using a decimal numbering system, in order to draw analogies with how numbers can be represented using binary. They use activities, either unplugged or software-based, to become familiar with binary number representation and convert between binary and decimal.
Learning objectives
- Describe how natural numbers are represented as sequences of binary digits
- Convert a decimal number to binary and vice versa
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- Learner resources
- Homework
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