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Reading a kitchen scale

Grade 3 · Measurement

A kitchen scale with a round dial. Some questions ask the student to read the mass the needle points to; others ask them to turn the needle to a given mass.

The dials are labelled only every few marks, so the size of a small step has to be worked out. On the bigger dials, masses are in kilograms and grams, like 1 kg 350 g.

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