AC9TDI6K03 – Year 5 Technologies: Data representation

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 Technologies provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

• 1 representing data using whole numbers and recognising this is how digital systems represent data, for example converting letters in a message to numbers using their position in the alphabet
• 2 explaining how the data type used to represent data changes the operations that can be performed on it, for example adding numbers performs addition whereas adding strings joins them

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