How Computers Work

Some machines help us manipulate physical objects like dirt and rocks. What do thinking machines (computers) help us manipulate?

• Clothing

• Information

• Banana peels

• Parking lots

All computers do what four jobs?

• Input, store, process, and output

• Input, RAM, process, and spreadsheets

• Read, write, calculate, and store

• Algorithm, input, keyboard, and print

What is the best description of what is inside a computer?

• Magic and snacks

• Wires and circuits

• Tiny gears and levers

• Cube-shaped pieces of glass

A single "wire" in a computer can represent how many different values?

• 2 (on, off)

• 3 (yes, no, maybe)

• 1 (just one)

• 0 (none)

What do we call the piece of data that can represent an ON/OFF value in a computer?

• Bit

• Byte

• Text

• A pandemic

What do we call the numbering system that is used inside computers?

• Decimal

• Binary

• Octal

• Mysterious

RAM is

• Operating System

• Short-term memory

• Long-term memory

• Hardware

Software is

• Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor

• Microsoft Word, Google, Operating System

• Keyboard, Google Docs, Mouse

• Microsoft Word, speakers, Snipping Tool

True or False: Computers encode each signal as either a 1 or a 0?

• True

• False

What is the mashup of the words Binary and Digit?

• Big

• Bigit

• Bit

• Bing