It gets students adding and multiplying (and enjoying it), it makes them feel smart, and it opens their brains to a whole different way of looking at numbers. It also gives them a fundamental understanding about computers....for now (until Quantum computing becomes a reality), computers are just a complex system of on and off switches represented as ones and zeros.
Once you've shown them a base two system, have them compare it to our base ten system. Have them identify the advantages and disadvantages of each.
THEN....expand out to the Aztec system (base 20) and the hexadecimal system (base 16). Fun stuff!
Oh...and no...9 times F is not "fleventy five."
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