Balance Scales
January 28th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Use old fashioned balancing scales on your modern interactive whiteboard. This learning resource allows you to demonstrate how items used to be weighed
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There are a number of objects to weigh and a variety of different weights to use to arrive at the correct answer. The resource will not allow more than 10 weights to be placed.
The instruction sheet also comes with a number of worksheets that could be used alongside this on the interactive whiteboard.
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5 responses so far ↓
1 irene // Mar 14, 2009 at 9:40 pm
just the right thing I neede for my pupils to understand this, because REAL scales are too expensive
2 eholshoe // Jun 3, 2009 at 6:15 pm
I love your site! Can I also choose ounces, pounds, and kilograms please?
3 admin // Jun 3, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Thanks, I’d like to update this resource a bit – when I do I will add the alternative measures.
4 GerryC // Jul 22, 2010 at 8:19 am
Nice work.
I am looking for a set of scales like this where you can add boxes with ‘x’ or ‘y’ written on it and use the scales to work out what ‘x’ or ‘y’ is.
Any thoughts?
5 Ted // Dec 6, 2010 at 12:16 am
Something like this?
http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/images/algebra-scales.swf
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