VoxPupils Students from St Mary's Catholic College on becoming computer whiz kids Rebecca Lavery, 14, said "We learn how to do binary and denary. I like learning the more complicated side and how it all works" Patrick Hanlon, 14, said: "We've looked at ROM and the binary code.
This relational understanding (Skemp, 1976) connected addition with multiplication, that is, the distributivity of multiplication over addition within base 10 as denary or decimal system (see also Chambers, 2008; Ronland et al., 2009).