A free printable ACARA Digital Technologies Years 5–6 crossword with 10 clues, built from the key terms of Representing Data with Numbers (Modules 73–84) — Colouring cells by their number with a conditional formatting rule, Adding more rules for more colours, A black-and-white picture from 0s and 1s in a spreadsheet, Making pixel art with whole numbers in a spreadsheet, Encoding and decoding a word with a letter-number code, A letter as a pattern of 0s and 1s and more. Print it or save it as a PDF — the answer key starts on its own page. No login needed.

ACARA Digital Technologies Years 5–6 Crossword: Representing Data with Numbers (Modules 73–84)

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3. A ______ with no fraction or decimal part, like 0, 7 or 250. We use ______ numbers to count things, such as scores, lives or students. 3.5 is not a ______. Word 1 of: _____ ______ (5)
6. Word 2 of the term in 3 Across: _____ ______ (6)
8. A data type with only two possible values: true or false. It stores the answer to a yes/no question, like 'is the light on?', just like on and off in binary. (7)
9. Word 1 of the term in 2 Down: ___ ___ ____ (3)
10. The kind of data a value is, such as a number, text or true/false. The ______ decides what the computer can do with the value. Word 2 of: data ____ (4)

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1. A pattern of 0s and 1s, like a thread of two bead colours. Every letter has its own pattern, so a computer can store text as 0s and 1s. Word 2 of: ______ ____ (4)
2. Each extra conditional formatting ______ links one more number to one more colour, so one grid of numbers can show many colours. Word 2 of: ___ ___ ____ (3)
4. To ______ a word, swap each letter for its number in the code, so with A=1, B=2 and C=3, CAB becomes 3 1 2. To decode it, swap each number back for its letter. (6)
5. Word 3 of the term in 2 Down: ___ ___ ____ (4)
7. Word 1 of the term in 1 Down: ______ ____ (6)

Answer Key

ACARA Digital Technologies Years 5–6 · Modules 73–84

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3WHOLE — A ______ with no fraction or decimal part, like 0, 7 or 250. We use ______ numbers to count things, such as scores, lives or students. 3.5 is not a ______. Word 1 of: _____ ______

6NUMBER — Word 2 of the term in 3 Across: _____ ______

8BOOLEAN — A data type with only two possible values: true or false. It stores the answer to a yes/no question, like 'is the light on?', just like on and off in binary.

9ADD — Word 1 of the term in 2 Down: ___ ___ ____

10TYPE — The kind of data a value is, such as a number, text or true/false. The ______ decides what the computer can do with the value. Word 2 of: data ____

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1CODE — A pattern of 0s and 1s, like a thread of two bead colours. Every letter has its own pattern, so a computer can store text as 0s and 1s. Word 2 of: ______ ____

2NEW — Each extra conditional formatting ______ links one more number to one more colour, so one grid of numbers can show many colours. Word 2 of: ___ ___ ____

4ENCODE — To ______ a word, swap each letter for its number in the code, so with A=1, B=2 and C=3, CAB becomes 3 1 2. To decode it, swap each number back for its letter.

5RULE — Word 3 of the term in 2 Down: ___ ___ ____

7BINARY — Word 1 of the term in 1 Down: ______ ____

ACARA Digital Technologies Years 5–6 Crossword: Representing Data with Numbers (Modules 73–84)

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