Max Maths, Year 1, Work Book, Comparing masses

The Max Maths Year 1 Workbook offers a practical section on comparing masses, providing young learners with a variety of exercises to help them understand the concept of weight. Practice 1 involves comparing the mass of different objects. The first activity asks students to identify which object is heavier by circling it, with pairs of items such as (a) and (b), and (c) and (d), to visually compare. The second activity reverses the task, prompting students to circle the lighter object in similar pairs.

Further exercises encourage the use of comparative language, with students filling in blanks with phrases like 'heavier than', 'lighter than', or 'as heavy as'. This helps them articulate the relative mass of items like balls, boxes, apples, and carrots. Another task requires students to complete sentences by identifying which of two objects, such as a tennis ball or a stapler, is heavier or lighter. Additionally, learners are asked to draw objects on a balance scale to visually represent which is heavier or lighter, such as an egg compared to an apple, or a shoe compared to a balloon. The section also includes activities for identifying the heaviest and lightest animals by circling or crossing them out, and exercises that use vocabulary such as 'heavier', 'lighter', 'heaviest', and 'lightest' to compare items like books, presents, scissors, cans, and toy cars. The workbook concludes with a problem-solving challenge where students must arrange food items in order from lightest to heaviest based on given clues, reinforcing their understanding of mass comparison.