Teaching Binary to 8th Graders

1 · Andrew Brampton · July 15, 2017, 7:23 p.m.
This summer, as part of GoogleServe, I volunteered in a local school to teach kids about the importance of mathematics. This was part part of a larger program organised by the Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF). I had 90 minutes, to introduce myself, talk a little about Google, and then spend the majority of the time teaching a topic of my choosing. Not knowing anything about teaching 8th graders I went to the Internet to find some material. I quickly found cse4k12.org, and the excellent...