Binary Shifts
Lesson Instructions
Watch and follow the YouTube video, the lesson contains three parts:
Key Information and content - all you need to do here is watch and listen. We recommend you take some notes for this one!
Learning activity - You are to complete the exercise completing and explaining what happens with binary shifts.
Consolidation - these are past exam question and are for deliberate practice to check your understanding.
Binary Shifts Full Lesson Video.mp4Task - Binary Shifts Activity
Task - Exam Questions - Deliberate Practice
Mark Scheme
Question 1 (a)
00110010
Question 1 (b)
1 mark per bullet to a maximum of 2.
The number is divided by 4
Loss of accuracy...
...the bits on the right are removed
Question 2 (a)
1 mark for each correct answer:
Denary equivalent: 173 (top row)
Binary number after 2 place left shift: 10110100
Denary equivalent for number after shift: 180
Question 2 (b)
1 mark for each point:
The number should multiply by 4...
...but it gives the wrong answer, because the value is more than 255, the maximum number represented by 8 bits