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Balancing Act

Balancing Act
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Mathematics Measurement
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Description

Your students will enjoy completing this open-ended worksheet as they find their own classroom objects to measure and compare mass using balance scales and informal units.
 

Suitable for
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
  • Rotations / Group Work
Curriculum Codes

AC9M1M01 9

Compare directly and indirectly and order objects and events using attributes of length, mass, capacity and duration, communicating reasoning

ACMMG019 8.4

Measure and compare the lengths and capacities of pairs of objects using uniform informal units

MA1-1WM old

Describes mathematical situations and methods using everyday and some mathematical language, actions, materials, diagrams and symbols

MA1-3WM old

Supports conclusions by explaining or demonstrating how answers were obtained

MA1-9MG old

Measures, records, compares and estimates lengths and distances using uniform informal units, metres and centimetres

MA1-11MG old

Measures, records, compares and estimates volumes and capacities using uniform informal units

MA1-NSM-01 new

Measures, records, compares and estimates the masses of objects using uniform informal units

MA1-3DS-02 new

Measures, records, compares and estimates internal volumes (capacities) and volumes using uniform informal units

MA1-GM-02 new

Measures, records, compares and estimates lengths and distances using uniform informal units, as well as metres and centimetres

MA1-NSM-02 new

Describes, compares and orders durations of events, and reads half- and quarter-hour time

VCMMG095

Measure and compare the lengths, masses and capacities of pairs of objects using uniform informal units

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