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5 – Turing’s Mug

🎯 Learning Objectives

  • To use your Data Representation skills to solve the Turing’s Mug puzzle.
  • Take a short test to assess your skills.
  • Play a binary game to check your counting skills.
  • Learn how to use your hand to count in binary.

💬 Key Vocabulary

  • Representations
  • communication
  • prefixes
  • units
  • binary digits
  • digital systems

📝 End of Topic Assessment

Your teacher will give you a link to the end of topic assessment.

Good Luck!

📖 Turing’s Mug

Download one of the worksheets below. Your teacher will assign you to groups and tell you which worksheet to download.

📖 Binary Game

Go to this link to test out your binary conversion skills, see if you can beat your teacher’s high score!

📖 Binary Hand Counting

Download the comic below to learn how to count in binary using one hand.

In this lesson, you…

  • Learnt how to handle bytes and prefixes and use them to talk about representation sizes.

In this topic, you have…

  • Learned what binary digits are and how they are used to represent text and numbers in computer systems.

🏅 Level up

🥇 Level 1

  • Complete the end of topic assessment and achieve at least 50%.

🥈 Level 2

  • Complete the end of topic assessment and achieve at least 70%.

🥉 Level 3

  • Upload the Level 3 – Turning Mug activity to Teams.