Computing · Stage 6

Review: Term 1

Programs & Judgement · review · look back at design, code, the machine and data

✦ Computing📘 Stage 6 · S6⏱ ~13 min🧒 Ages 10–12★ Free to start
I can recall design, code, the machine and data.
Kavi the owl for Computing
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Kavi Looks Back at Term 1

Kavi curled up in the reading nook with a mug of acorn tea and a fat notebook. "Look how far we flew this term!" Kavi hooted, turning the pages. "We learned to design — break a huge problem into small, solvable parts (that's decomposition) and plan a design doc before building. We learned to code — real typed lines that run top to bottom, with variables, lists and functions we can call. We looked inside the machine — everything is stored in binary (0s and 1s, bits and bytes), and the CPU repeats fetch–decode–execute for every single instruction. And we learned to work with data — clean it, find the mean, and tell an honest story without overclaiming." Kavi tapped the four headings. "Four big ideas. Let's look back and make sure every one of them stuck."

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What your child will learn

1Everything Term 1 taught usTerm 1 had four big ideas. Tap each one to bring it back — then you will be ready for the review questions.
2Sort each one into its big ideaEach card below comes from one of the four big ideas. Tap the idea it belongs to.
3Work each one out, then revealA good technologist can trace code, read binary and check a number. Work out each one, then reveal to check — and try the next.
4Decode, or Execute?Two steps of the CPU cycle are easy to mix up. Decode works the instruction OUT; Execute carries it OUT. The adding happens in Execute.
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A peek inside

A single 0 or 1 is the smallest piece of data inside a computer. What is it called, and how many of them make one byte?
a single binary digit is the smallest piece; a byte bundles eight of them together

Try this at home: Breaking a big problem into smaller, solvable parts is called ____.

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