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UNIT 1: LESSON 4

UNIT 1: LESSON 4. NUMBER SYSTEMS. Make partners Cut up shapes – each pair gets 10 of each shape (2 pages).

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UNIT 1: LESSON 4

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  1. UNIT 1: LESSON 4 NUMBER SYSTEMS

  2. Make partnersCut up shapes – each pair gets 10 of each shape (2 pages)

  3. You will explore the properties of number systems by inventing a base-3 number system using circles, triangles and squares as the symbols instead of the Arabic numbers we usually use.Using the Arabic numbers 1, 2, 3 and so on is really just an arbitrary system we have all agreed upon.

  4. Understand that you can represent any number with any agreed upon set of symbols appearing in an agreed-upon order.

  5. Different number systems used with computers:decimal (base 10) – 1, 2, 3 or 45.6, etc.Binary (base 2) – state “a” or state “B”hexadecimal (base 16)

  6. Numbers themselves (quantities) are laws of nature.The symbols we use to represent the numbers are arbitrary, man-made abstraction.

  7. Purpose for today:you will invent your own base-3 number system.Rules:you must have1. a set of distinct symbols2. an agreement about how those symbols should be ordered

  8. HOW MANY WAYS CAN YOU REPRESENT “7”?

  9. Use the shapes you cut out.Use the activity guide.Have one partner move the shapes into patterns, and the other partner write the unique 3-place patterns down.Order matters! So circle, triangle, square is different from triangle, circle, squaredo challenge 1 and challenge 2 – write your rules

  10. YOU JUST MADE A NUMBER SYSTEM!Share your number system with another team.Can your team follow the other team’s rules to make their number system?Were some sets of rules easier to follow than others?Do you think there are limits to the number of symbols we could use to represent numbers?

  11. What if we only had 2 symbols, and circle and a square? Could we still make a number system?What if we had 10 symbols: a circle, square, star, etc. Could we still make a number system?

  12. Did your team have all the possibilities?

  13. Answer the question at the end of the lesson in code studio.

  14. Homework:click on the link and read:“roman and ‘Arabic’ numeralsand follow the directions on the handout.

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