WE FINISHED SAGE TESTING! YES! Now that we are done (and we all did awesome), Ms. Bad has been teaching us about a real-world connection to math: coding! First we learned about how computers "talk." The language computers use is binary, which is really numbers, which is confusing. But the bottom line here is the combination of 1's and 0's are translated into certain words based on the code the computer uses. We learned how to code between Base 10 and Binary as well as how to add in Binary (it's crazy!). We then learned about ASCII. We even wrote our names in binary (they were very long because every letter is equal to one byte of code, which is 8 bits, which is 8 numbers, either 1 or 0. Got it?). Next week we are going to start coding in class using coding blocks! I'll update you after we learn coding on Tynker (that's what Ms. Bad told us it is called) and share our project we create. Goodbye for now!
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