Cubes and faces 0 Overview Using this Resource Connecting to the Curriculum Marking Student Responses Further Resources This task is about using a net to work out which shapes are on which faces. This net can be folded to make a cube. Question a) Which shape would be opposite the on the cube? Question b) Which shape would be opposite the on the cube? Question c) Which one of these cubes would it look like? Task administration: This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (with auto-marking displayed to students). Level: 3 Curriculum info: Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Shape Keywords: 3-dimensional shapes, cubes, faces, nets, visualising Description of task: Students use a net of a cube to identify opposite faces and what the cube would look like when constructed. Curriculum Links: This resource can help to identify students' understanding of nets for 3-dimensional shapes. Learning Progression FrameworksThis resource can provide evidence of learning associated with Geometric thinking, sets 3-4 within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks. Answers/responses: Y6 (12/1997) a) easy b) moderate c) difficult Design a box Design a chocolate box Folded nets Shapes and nets Nets for rectangular prisms Net of an open box II Nets for a cube Folding nets II Matching nets and shapes Matching cubes and nets
