ACARA 5-6 Digital Technologies: Data types and what you can do with them
Students learn about whole numbers, text and true/false values, how the data type changes which operations work, and how to explain all of this in short sentences.
One content description (AC9TDI6K03, AC9TDI6K04) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 5–6 — Representing Data with Numbers journey. All 13 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (13)
1
What a data type is
2
Whole numbers as a data type
3
Types of data: numbers and text
4
Text (strings) as a data type
5
True or false values
6
The number 5 compared with the text "5"
7
Sorting values into number, text or true/false
8
Operations on numbers: + - * /
9
Joining text together
10
Comparing values gives true or false
11
The data type decides what you can do
12
Choosing a data type for a value
13
Explaining how digital systems use numbers for data
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