Benchmark
8E: The Designed World - Information Processing
(grades 6-8, page 202)
Most computers use digital codes containing only two symbols, 0 and 1,
to perform all operations. Continuous signals (analog) must be transformed
into digital codes before they can be processed by a computer. (1 of 4)
Standard 6-1, page 91, Grades 5-8
Understand and appreciate the need for numbers beyond the whole numbers
Standard 6-2, page 91, Grades 5-8
Develop and use order relations for whole numbers, fractions, decimals,
integers, and rational numbers
