Counting in Binary

This lesson teaches how to count using the binary system, which uses only the digits zero and one. Students will learn to represent numbers in base two and understand the place values associated with binary digits. Activities include grouping counters to illustrate binary numbers.

• 02:33 “We use this paper abacost to improvise. I don't know if you've seen an abacost in real life. We have 8, fours, twos, then units. Okay, then we have one here, nothing here, one here, one here. I would like us to do this t...”
• 04:52 “One, two, three, then four. Then I have one left. Okay, let's continue the activity. Then next one now is to group them in eight, four, two, and units. Okay, let's see, let's do that now. We've grouped this into, now let...”
• 04:06 “For example, let me use stick like maybe a stick. Let's count out nine. I want to do this together. You can do that on your own end. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. These are nine counters. Now we have to gro...”