Selection and Decision Making · Algorithms & Programming

Conditional Statements in Real Life

Mapping everyday decisions to the logical structures used by computers.

Key Questions

  1. 1How many 'if-then' decisions do you make before you arrive at school?
  2. 2How can we represent a complex decision as a simple flowchart?
  3. 3What happens if a condition is neither true nor false?

National Curriculum Attainment Targets

KS2: Computing - Programming and Algorithms
Year: Year 5
Subject: Computing
Unit: Selection and Decision Making
Period: Algorithms & Programming

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