Number Balances

We've been working with our new number balances in Year 4.

The two sides of the balance have to balance.

We created lots of balanced numbers. Like this:

You'll notice there's more than one weight on some numbers!

We also did the same thing with an online version from nrich:

We made lots of them!



And a whole lot more!

 The challenge, though, is to work out where the weights were the next day!

We're writing them as equations:

We had a look at this game, Weigh It Up, which starts out easy and gets harder too: