Balance Scale 7 - Four-Toy Challenge

💡Tips for Parents

▸ What to do Look at the three balance scales, reason about the weights, and circle the correct answer. The lower pan is heavier. Combine the clues before choosing the heaviest or lightest item. First question, checked from the printed data: B < A; C < B; D < C → A. ▸ Start with an example Have your child write all three balance-scale comparisons on scratch paper in order, just as in the earlier two worksheets, and notice that the six puzzles here alternate between asking for the heaviest toy and the lightest one. Reading the question carefully before writing down a final answer matters just as much as chaining the clues correctly, since a perfectly solved chain still produces a wrong answer if the wrong end of it gets circled. Encourage your child to underline "heaviest" or "lightest" in the question as a quick, physical reminder before they commit to an answer. ▸ If it is difficult If the answer comes out backwards, check first whether your child answered the opposite of what was actually asked — heaviest instead of lightest, or the other way around — since that single mix-up is a common trap in this set and is much more likely than an error in the comparison chain itself. Only after ruling that out should you go back and re-check the three scales one at a time. Catching this kind of mistake together, rather than simply marking it wrong, teaches your child to question the easy assumption before questioning the harder reasoning. ▸ Check before continuing Balance Scale 7 - Four-Toy Challenge — Check the completed work using this instruction: The lower pan is heavier. Combine the clues before choosing the heaviest or lightest item. Point to one correction and explain the step used. Revisit that part if the explanation and the marks do not agree.

🎯What This Worksheet Builds

The lower pan is heavier. Combine the clues before choosing the heaviest or lightest item.

👉Next Step

With this three-worksheet sub-series complete, try inventing a five-toy version with four scale clues together at the kitchen table, using drawings or toy stickers if you have them — or simply have your child explain the reasoning steps out loud to check true understanding. Being able to teach the method back to you, scale by scale, is one of the clearest signs that your child has moved from following steps to actually understanding why the chain works, which will make any future logic puzzle easier to approach.