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SolveMe Mobiles

SolveMe Mobiles from the US National Science Foundation invites students to play with virtual mobiles: balanced structures with hidden values for the weights. These interactive puzzles help develop algebraic and problem-solving skills.

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Year level(s)	Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10
Audience	Student
Purpose	Student task, Home practice tasks
Format	Interactive
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Concrete Representational Abstract model
Keywords	algebra, balance beam, unknowns
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Algebra, Build understanding
Topics	Algebraic expressions, Patterns and algebra
AC: Mathematics content descriptions	ACMNA175 Introduce the concept of variables as a way of representing numbers using letters ACMNA133 Continue and create sequences involving whole numbers, fractions and decimals. Describe the rule used to create the sequence ACMNA121 Find unknown quantities in number sentences involving multiplication and division and identify equivalent number sentences involving multiplication and division ACMNA083 Find unknown quantities in number sentences involving addition and subtraction and identify equivalent number sentences involving addition and subtraction ACMNA060 Describe, continue, and create number patterns resulting from performing addition or subtraction ACMNA035 Describe patterns with numbers and identify missing elements
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