Year 10 Binary and Hexadecimal

CS Overview

REVISITING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF BINARY

Binary numbers are the way computers store numbers and data.

ENGLISH Computer Science Unplugged - Part 1 Binary - 2005

UC Computer Science Education

Why Do Computers Use 1s and 0s? Binary and Transistors Explained.

Basics Explained, H3Vtux

Task 1.1

Revisit the Basics of Binary

Use the CS Field Guide Binary Card Simulator to help you remember

Create the Binary Number for your:

- birthdate eg DD/MM/YY ... 25/11/16 , or for those that are hardcore DD/MM/YYYY ...25/11/2016
- street number
- age

Task 1.2

Conversion Sheet

Click the image to complete!

To help you can colour the cards like the first one, use the CSFG digital binary cards, or work it out manually.

Task 1.3

Quick Binary Quiz

Take this quick quiz to check you remember binary.

Do you remember binary? Check how well?

Reinforce your learning through games

Binary Banaza

Binary Game

LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS OF HEXADECIMAL NUMBERS

Task 1.4

Hexadecimal Conversions

Click the image to complete!

It may be easiest to start with Hexadecimal and Binary conversions before attempting the Decimal

Task 1.5

Flippy Bit Game

Reinforce your learning through games - click the image.

A fast paced game that gets you to shoot down aliens using hex codes. It's quite tough!

Task 1.6

Quick Hexadecimal Quiz

Take this quick quiz to check you know hexadecimal.

Do you understand Hexadecimal? Check how well?

LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS OF HEX COLOURS

Task 1.7

Hex Paint by Numbers

Convert the hex codes and names into colours and paint hem into the picture in GIMP by clicking Gimp file to download

Use the paint bucket tool and double click the colour swatch to change.

Save as into your H drive.

Make sure you are on the right layer and use the paint bucket to fill the numbers.

Export the your coloured image as a .png and click the image below to submit to schoology.

https://coloritbynumbers.com/online

https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/hexadecimal-color-names.html

Task 1.8

Hex Invaders Game

A game that introduces you to Hex numbers as used in computer images.

Task 1.9

Quick Hex Colours Quiz

Take this quick quiz to check you know hex colours.

Do you understand Hex Colours? Check how well?

FOR FAST FINISHERS

Huedle

https://huedle.com/

How well did you understand Hex and Colour

Colourdle

https://colourdle.co.uk/

How well did you understand the fundamentals of Hex and RGB

⬇️ EoT BINARY & HEXADECIMAL ASSESSMENT ⬇️

Complete the Binary & Hexadecimal Final Assessment

FURTHER RESOURCES

Task 1.Extra - Martian Messages

NASA’s Mars rover perseverance had a secret message encoded on the parachute. The panels need to be converted into binary then decimal and finally a A1Z26 cypher which is just a complicated way of saying 1=a, 2=b, ..., z=26

Can you work out the message?

Click the image on right to get the info.

Binary Puzzles

The binary puzzle is a challenging logic puzzle that can be solved just by reasoning. Only zeros and ones occur in the puzzle, but this turns out to be more complicated than it seems to be. This site offers hundreds of binary puzzles, of various sizes and of various levels.

A last warning: The binary puzzle is quite addictive.

http://www.binarypuzzle.com/

LINKS TO NZ CURRICULUM

Digital Technologies | Progress Outcomes

Computational Thinking for Digital Technologies

At the end of this topic students will have had the opportunity to cover;

understand that digital devices store data using just two states represented by binary digits PO3
understand that digital devices represent data with binary digits and can detect errors in data storage and transmission PO4
understand how computers store more complex types of data using binary digits PO5

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