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| Title: |
Bits & Pieces: Binary Numbers |
| Description: |
Binary numbers are the foundations of many everyday activities and items, especially in our technologically dominated society. At the most basic level, everything a computer does is represented in zero’s and ones. Every time you turn on a light switch, this is a binary action—off or on. This activity is an inquiry based introduction to the concept of binary numbers, why they are important, how they are used, and how they relate to decimal numbers. It is followed with a short activity to help learn the place values (powers of two) that are used when making binary numbers. The lesson is adapted from the MATHmaniaCS website and is modified for use in a middle school setting. Two files are included. BinaryNumbersActivityPlan.doc is the plan for this activity and BinaryNumbers.zip is a zipped file containing supplemental materials for the activity. |
| Key Words: |
binary numbers, place value, |
| Grade Level: |
6th, 7th, 8th |
| Subject: |
Math |
| URL: |
http://www.mathmaniacs.org/lessons/ |
| URL: |
http://www.mathmaniacs.org/lessons/01-binary/index.html |
| View File: |
BinaryNumbersActivityPlan.doc |
| View File: |
BinaryNumbers.zip |
| Teacher's Request: |
I need an activity for my students to do related to converting binary numbers to decimal numbers. I would like to have some real world examples of how binary numbers are used and why they are important |
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