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Keep it Balanced Scale Worksheet

A balance-scale page combines pictured weights and short reasoning prompts so learners determine missing values and explain whether a scale balances.
Grades
Grades 2–5, Elementary
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Preparation
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Updated Aug 03, 2021

Subject
Math, Measurements
Topic
Weight, Metrics
Resource types
Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
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This Keep it Balanced Scale Worksheet is a great way for students to practice solving weight problems involving a scale. The pictures make it easy to understand and visualize the concepts.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Use equality to determine an unknown weight

  • Explain whether two sides of a scale have equivalent total mass

Teaching tips

  • Translate each scale into an equality statement before solving so the visual balance is connected to the quantities on both sides.

Skills covered

  • Equality reasoning — Compare totals on two sides

  • Visual problem solving — Interpret weights from scale diagrams

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Core concepts

  • balance scales

  • equivalent mass

  • unknown weight

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