Year 8
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will complete a set of tasks followed by a puzzle activity that utilises conversion between binary and decimal.
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8 Questions
Q1.
What does the word ‘bit’ mean in Computing?
A group of 8 0s and 1s.
A sequence of 0s and 1s.
Very small piece.
Q2.
Which of the following is a binary digit?
01
2
bit
Q3.
Which of the following would you characterise as ‘binary’? (Tick 2 boxes)
A die
An oven knob.
Q4.
Which of the following is a byte?
1
8
bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit.
Q5.
What is the size or length of this sequence of binary digits: 101?
101
2 bits.
5
Q6.
Here is a sequence of binary digits: 011000101110010100110100010001110101001110001010101 What could this sequence represent? What could it mean?
A number.
A piece of text.
A set of instructions.
Musical notes.
Q7.
Which of the following are equivalent to 8,000 bits? (Tick 2 boxes)
64,000 bytes.
8 megabits.
8,000 bytes.
Q8.
Which of the following is equivalent to 500 MB (megabytes)?
0.5kB (kilobytes).
5,000GB (gigabytes).
5,000kB (kilobytes).
500Mb (megabits).