Verifying Data Integrity: A Magic Trick

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Audience

Attendees

10-12

Number of facilitators

1

Level

Preparation

5 minutes

Activity

30 minutes

Description

This activity will explore idea of data integrity through a card game.

Objectives

Data integrity

Prerequisites for the audience

Counting
Recognising even and odd numbers
Knowing how to define data and bits

Equipment

36 magnetic cards such as in the form of fridge magnets, with only one side coloured.
A metal board for presentation (a steel white board for example).
Every pair of participants will need 36 identical cards coloured on one side only (i.e. the face-up side).

Content used

None