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Nets Video Learn more about three-dimensional shapes and their nets.
Volume Video There are simple formulas that can be used to find the volumes of basic three-dimensional shapes.
Volume Use formulae to solve problems involving the volumes of cuboids, cones, pyramids, prisms and composite solids.
Net or Not Drag the nets into the corresponding panels to show whether they would fold to form a cube.
Dice Net Challenge Drag the numbers onto the net so that when it is folded to form a cube numbers on opposite faces add up to prime numbers.
Cube Face Meetings Visualise the cubes formed by the nets and paint the three faces meeting at a vertex.
Cubical Net Challenge Find all the ways of painting the faces of cubes using only two colours.
Coloured Cube 3D Colour in the remaining faces of the nets of the cubes to match the rotating three-dimensional picture.
Plans and Elevations Interpret plans and elevations of three dimensional shapes.
Faces, Edges and Vertices Calculate the number of faces, edges and vertices on 3D Shapes.
Platonic Solids Identify the names, nets and features of the five regular polyhedra.
Surface Area Video Finding the surface are of three dimensional shapes can involve some interesting formulae.
Surface Area Work out the surface areas of common solid shapes in this collection of exercises.
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