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Binary & the Language of Computers quiz games for KS3 Computing

11 live games for KS3 Computing, 163 questions. Free for teachers, up to 40 players.

Binary & the Language of Computers for KS3 Computing: 11 ready-made live quiz games, 163 questions in all.

The questions cover Binary to denary, Denary to binary, Binary to Denary, ASCII & Text Representation, Bits and values and Bits & Bytes.

There are 7 practice sets and 4 quickfire rounds. Question types: 87 multiple choice, 64 true or false, 10 fill the gap and 2 matching.

Pick a set, put the join code on the board and pupils play on their phones. Pupils need no account. Free for teachers, up to 40 players.

The gamesEach set is a fixed list of questions. Open a preview to see a few of them.

Quickfire: Binary & the Language of Computers

KS315 questions· Warm-up

Plays in 17 of 17 game modes, including Gold Rush, Big Catch and Speed Blitz.

Preview 3 sample questions
  1. 1

    How many bits are there in one byte?

    164810
  2. 2

    Convert the denary number 4 to 8-bit binary.

    00000001000001000000100000000010
  3. 3

    Convert the binary number 00100100 to denary.

    34403638

+ 12 more questions in the game.

Practice

Binary & the Language of Computers: ASCII & Text Representation

KS315 questions· Core

Plays in 17 of 17 game modes, including Gold Rush, Big Catch and Speed Blitz.

Preview 3 sample questions
  1. 1

    Converting denary to binary: true or false?

    The denary number 255 converts to 11111111 in binary.
  2. 2

    What is the largest denary number that can be represented using 8 bits?

    999256128255
  3. 3

    ASCII: true or false?

    Every character has a unique ASCII decimal code and 8-bit binary pattern.

+ 12 more questions in the game.

Practice

Binary & the Language of Computers: Binary to Denary

KS315 questions· Core

Plays in 17 of 17 game modes, including Gold Rush, Big Catch and Speed Blitz.

Preview 3 sample questions
  1. 1

    A denary number converts to binary as 00001010. What is its denary value?

    8101218
  2. 2

    Converting binary to denary: true or false?

    The binary number 00001111 converts to the denary value 15.
  3. 3

    Converting binary to denary: true or false?

    The binary number 10000000 converts to the denary value 128.

+ 12 more questions in the game.

Practice

Binary & the Language of Computers: Bits & Bytes

KS315 questions· Core

Plays in 17 of 17 game modes, including Gold Rush, Big Catch and Speed Blitz.

Preview 3 sample questions
  1. 1

    How many bits are there in one byte?

    416108
  2. 2

    Convert the denary number 4 to 8-bit binary.

    00001000000001000000001000000001
  3. 3

    Convert the binary number 00100100 to denary.

    40343638

+ 12 more questions in the game.

Quickfire: Binary numbers

KS315 questions· Warm-up

Plays in 17 of 17 game modes, including Gold Rush, Big Catch and Speed Blitz.

Preview 3 sample questions
  1. 1

    What is denary 6 in 4-bit binary?

    0010011101010110
  2. 2

    What is denary 2 in 4-bit binary?

    0100000000100011
  3. 3

    What is denary 4 in 4-bit binary?

    0101001101000010

+ 12 more questions in the game.

Practice

Binary & the Language of Computers: Binary to denary

KS315 questions· Core

Plays in 17 of 17 game modes, including Gold Rush, Big Catch and Speed Blitz.

Preview 3 sample questions
  1. 1

    True or false?

    The binary number 0111 is 7 in denary.
  2. 2

    True or false?

    The binary number 0100 is 4 in denary.
  3. 3

    True or false?

    The binary number 0101 is 5 in denary.

+ 12 more questions in the game.

Practice

Binary & the Language of Computers: Binary to denary, set 2

KS315 questions· Core

Plays in 17 of 17 game modes, including Gold Rush, Big Catch and Speed Blitz.

Preview 3 sample questions
  1. 1

    True or false?

    The binary number 00100011 is 35 in denary.
  2. 2

    True or false?

    The binary number 01100010 is 66 in denary.
  3. 3

    True or false?

    The binary number 10010000 is 144 in denary.

+ 12 more questions in the game.

Practice

Binary & the Language of Computers: Bits and values

KS313 questions· Core

Plays in 17 of 17 game modes, including Gold Rush, Big Catch and Speed Blitz.

Preview 3 sample questions
  1. 1

    How many different values can 4 bits represent?

    1632815
  2. 2

    How many different values can 3 bits represent?

    86167
  3. 3

    How many different values can 1 bits represent?

    1624

+ 10 more questions in the game.

Practice

Binary & the Language of Computers: Denary to binary

KS315 questions· Core

Plays in 17 of 17 game modes, including Gold Rush, Big Catch and Speed Blitz.

Preview 3 sample questions
  1. 1

    What is denary 40 in 8-bit binary?

    00010100001010000010011100101001
  2. 2

    What is denary 80 in 8-bit binary?

    01010001000010100101000001000000
  3. 3

    What is denary 33 in 8-bit binary?

    00100001001000100010100110000100

+ 12 more questions in the game.

Quickfire: Hexadecimal

KS315 questions· Warm-up

Plays in 17 of 17 game modes, including Gold Rush, Big Catch and Speed Blitz.

Preview 3 sample questions
  1. 1

    True or false?

    Hexadecimal D is 14 in denary.
  2. 2

    True or false?

    Hexadecimal D is 13 in denary.
  3. 3

    True or false?

    Hexadecimal 4 is 4 in denary.

+ 12 more questions in the game.

Quickfire: Units of data

KS315 questions· Warm-up

Plays in 17 of 17 game modes, including Gold Rush, Big Catch and Speed Blitz.

Preview 3 sample questions
  1. 1

    True or false?

    A byte is 8 bits.
  2. 2

    True or false?

    A byte is 4 bits.
  3. 3

    How many bytes is 304 bits?

    38152762,432

+ 12 more questions in the game.

How hosting works

  1. Pick a set and a game mode. The questions stay the same; the game changes.
  2. Put the join code on the board. Pupils join at subjecthub.co.uk/play on a phone or laptop. They need no account.
  3. Play for 1 to 7 minutes. You choose the length before you start.

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