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Year 8

Lesson 4 Numbers in binary

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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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