This time we have a collection of printable pan balance worksheets that are perfect to use as your lesson plan. Challenge your students to practice their critical thinking skills with Pan Balance. This is a series of worksheets to use with students when teaching them how to weight objects using a pan balance and gram weights. Let’s start with the first balance worksheet below.
In a pan balance, things go into the two “pans”, and the heavier pan will go down, like in a seesaw. Working on these pan balance worksheets is a great way to practice critical thinking skills! Use this worksheet as a basic assessment after teaching about weight and using a pan balance. This is a series of worksheets to use with students when teaching them how to weigh objects using a pan balance.
Using pan balances on an interactive smart board is a fun way to involve the students in this important concept and allows them to solve the pan balancing problems. These are pans in each worksheet. If the two things weigh the same, the balance stays balanced.
There are many worksheets to choose from with students when teaching them how to weigh objects using a pan balance. Each worksheet has problems balancing an equation with addition. Use this pan balance worksheet as your students’ math center! Students will measure the materials pictured to see how many each item is equal to. Use this tool to strengthen understanding and computation of numerical expressions and equality. Download and print today!