Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to identify and record how to use vocabulary words and the matching symbols for greater than and less than to compare the mass of different types of toys and games measured used bucket balances.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to measure and compare the mass of some different toys and games against numbers of construction bricks for non-standard measurements.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to measure, record and compare the mass of some different toys and games using scales, bucket balances and symbols for greater than and less than. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.