This manipulative provides opportunities to:
Create scenarios balancing objects, numbers, variables, or operations
Take snapshots to record past work as long as the manipulative is kept open
See an automatically generated equation or inequality that represents the items placed on the balance
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Simulation by PhET Interactive Simulations, University of Colorado Boulder, licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://phet.colorado.edu)
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