Determine whether the given nets would fold to produce a dice.
A dice is reflected in two mirrors. What numbers can be seen?
Find the number of faces, edges and vertices on some familiar objects.
How many triangles are there on the surface of a regular icosahedron.
A slide presentation (a poem) introducing using trigonometry (including Pythagoras' Theorem) to find lengths and angles on three dimensional shapes.
Colour in the remaining faces of the nets of the cubes to match the rotating three-dimensional picture.
This is a simple interactive that does nothing more than allow you to create 3D drawings of models made with cubes.
Visualise the cubes formed by the nets and paint the three faces meeting at a vertex.
Find all the ways of painting the faces of cubes using only two colours.
Apply formulae for the volumes and surface areas of cylinders to answer a wide variety of questions
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.
Draw two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional objects on an isometric dotty grid.
Calculate the number of faces, edges and vertices on 3D Shapes.
Drag the nets into the corresponding panels to show whether they would fold to form a cube.
Interpret plans and elevations of three dimensional shapes.
Identify the names, nets and features of the five regular polyhedra.
A jumbled moving-block puzzle cube is shown as a net. Can you solve it?
Questions about the scale factors of lengths, areas and volumes of similar shapes.
Work out the surface areas of common solid shapes in this collection of exercises.
Pupils are not allowed to use their hands to point but must describe fully any shapes they can see in this picture.
Calculate the lengths of sides and the size of angles in three dimensional shapes.
Use formulae to solve problems involving the volumes of cuboids, cones, pyramids, prisms and composite solids.
Find the cuboids with integer side lengths where the volume is numerically equal to the surface area.
A game to determine the mathematical item by asking questions that can only be answered yes or no.
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