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Balance Beans
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Balance Beans

A logic and early-algebra game where children place coloured beans on a seesaw to keep it balanced, solving 40 progressive challenges.

Age
⁦5+⁩ years
Grade levels
KGGrades 1–3Grades 4–5
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Product overview

Balance Beans from ThinkFun is a single-player game that blends logic puzzles with early maths. Children set up red beans on a seesaw as shown on a challenge card, then place the remaining coloured beans so the seesaw does not tip.

Balancing the seesaw is really balancing an equation, so the game quietly introduces the thinking behind algebra. The set includes a game tray and base, 9 bean tokens (3 single, 3 double and 3 triple beans) and 40 challenges from Easy to Super Hard with solutions.

Early challenges can be solved by trial and error, while later ones require reasoning about weight and position. This makes it a useful maths-centre activity for kindergarten and primary pupils, and a concrete way for teachers to talk about equality and balance.

Key features

  • 40 challenges from Easy to Super Hard
  • Seesaw tray with 9 bean tokens
  • Introduces equation and algebra thinking
  • Progresses from trial and error to reasoning
  • Single-player with solutions
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