Units & Why Binary?

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
Learning activity - this activity involves answering different questions about binary and units
Quiz - you will be converting between units.
Consolidation - these are past exam question and are for deliberate practice to check your understanding.

Units and Why Binary Full Lesson Video.mp4

Task - Units

Task - Unit Conversions

Task - Exam Questions - Deliberate Practice

Exam Questions - Web

Mark Scheme

Question 1

Multiply by 1000
2000 GB

Question 2

1 kilobyte = 1000 bytes
1 Gigabyte = 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes, or 1000000000 bytes

Question 3

Computers consist of transistors/switches/logic circuits/gates... must refer to hardware
... which only have two values, on or off / 1 or 0 / open or closed

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