Zeros and ones.
Posted: November 29, 2005 Filed under: Uncategorized 3 Comments »Want to see a bunch of elementary school parents shake in their boots? Tell them they’ll be teaching a lesson in binary numbers.
bi·na·ry
Pronunciation: 'bI-n&-rE, -"ner-E
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ries
: something made of or based on two things or parts: as a : BINARY STAR b : a binary number system
Most of the parents don’t even remember learning this the first time. Except for the IT folks, and there were a couple of them.
And when the kids asked what the use of knowing this was, my favorite answer (from one of the moms) was “You’ll be able to tell your friend you know the binary system.”
Now how’s that for incentive?
There are 10 kinds of people in this world,
those who know binary and those who don’t!
Nothing like a bit of binary humor…how about binary is as easy as 1, 10, 11? And why are your kids learning this?
I can barely believe I know TWO people with DIFFERENT binary jokes. Anyone else?
And to answer your question, the kids are learning the binary system so they can count with mittens on.