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These ‘celebrity’ bathroom scales are marked with the names of famous people rather than with numbers.

 

Try to make a weight (mass) scale marked with the names of animals.

Make a height scale for animals.

 

Make a height scale marked with the names of famous buildings.

 

Make a temperature scale marked with the names of countries.

 

What other scales can you invent?

 

 

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