George Boole and Logic Gates – Worksheet

Task 1: Answer the following questions about George Boole

Who was George Boole?

George Boole was a mathematician who was alive during the

19th century. He talked about simple logic that later inspired
programmers to do the same and name a computing
language after him called boolean.

What did he realise that was so important?

He realised that in order to make a machine that creates a solution, he would have to
go back to the basics and go in depth with logic.

Task 2: Paste an image of each of the 3 main logic gates that we would find in a CPU

NOT Gate AND Gate OR Gate

Task 3: Complete the Truth Tables for each of the three main logic gates to show what the
outputs are for the different combinations to inputs.

Not Gate

INPUTS OUTPUTS

1 0

0 1

AND Gate

INPUT A INPUT B OUTPUTS

1 1 1

1 0 0

0 1 0

0 0 0

OR Gate

INPUT A INPUT B OUTPUTS

1 1 1

1 0 1

0 1 1

0 0 0
Task 4: For each of the Logic Circuits below, state what the output would be in each case

1.

1 What is the output for this

? Logic Circuit?
?
0
0

2.
1
? What is the output for this
0 Logic Circuit?
? 0
0

What is the output

? ? for this Logic
3. 0 Circuit?

? 1
1

4.
What is the output for this
Logic Circuit?

1
 5.

What is the output for this

Logic Circuit?

6.

0 What is the output for

this Logic Circuit?
?
1
1

EXTENSION:
Try the following logic gate puzzles:
https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/logic-gate-puzzler/1522357785