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Balance and Weight Exploration
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Balance and Weight Exploration
Aotearoa’s school market is getting ready to pack fruit and baking. Use mass and balance to help the stallholders. Show your calculations and include units where needed.
Read the scale
On a balance scale, equal masses make the beam level. If one side has greater mass, that side goes down. Mass is commonly measured in grams (g) and kilograms (kg).
1.A balance has a 750 g bag of flour on the left and a 0.8 kg bag of sugar on the right. Which side goes down, and by how many grams?
2.A parcel weighs 2.35 kg. How many grams is this?
3.A balance is level with a 1 kg bag of rice on one side and two identical tins on the other. What is the mass of each tin?
4.A 420 g packet of oats balances three identical apples. What is the mass of one apple?
5.A box of feijoas has a mass of 1.2 kg. Maia adds 350 g of feijoas to it. What is the new mass in kilograms?
6.A market scale is tilted because a 900 g pumpkin is on one side and a 650 g cabbage is on the other. Which change would make the scale level? Choose the best answer.
- Add 250 g to the cabbage side
- Add 250 g to the pumpkin side
- Remove 250 g from the cabbage side
- Add 100 g to the cabbage side
7.A stallholder has weights of 500 g, 200 g, 100 g and 50 g. Select weights totalling exactly 850 g, then state the combination.
8.True or false: If a balance is level, the objects on its two sides must look the same.
TrueFalse
9.Match each te reo Māori word with its English meaning: taurite; taumaha; tītaha.
- taurite
- taumaha
- tītaha
- heavy / weight
- balance / equal
- tilted / uneven
10.A fruit box has a mass of 2.4 kg. A smaller box has a mass of 1,650 g. How much greater is the mass of the fruit box? Give your answer in grams.
11.A baker wants to check whether a reusable bag has a mass of about 300 g. Describe a fair balance-scale test using known masses, and explain what result would show the bag is about 300 g.
Draw a balance with objects on both sides that would make it level. Label the mass of each object and show that the totals are equal.
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