Dice Nets

Dice Nets

Which of the diagrams above show:
a)The net of a cube,
b)The net of a dice (opposite numbers adding up to seven)?

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  • Scarlett Rowe, Lawnswood School Leeds
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  • A very good source of maths activity! I recomend it to all the teachers out there.
  • The Best Maths Class 7cd/M2, King Alfred's College Oxfordshire
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  • Molly, Natasha, Patrick, Ryan, Jordii, one other, Louis got it right. Everyone else got a headache ! Really good challenge.
  • Mr Kel, Fulford School
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  • Starter could easily be developed into accurate construction of the nets of cubes/dices using compasses and rulers and actually having a go at making the cubes/dices.
  • Mr Edwards, Sheredes Set 2 Year 7
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  • Some of the group found this quite challenging, and others thought it was quite easy. Jack paris said 'a very good challenge and a good way to help with your nets'. Sydney said 'the cube part was easy but the die part was quite challenging. 'Sam said 'it was a brainteasing challenge but it was fun.'.
  • Mr Hill, Top Maths Group - BSCA
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  • Mr Hill's top maths group did really well - 6 of them got 100%.
  • Mrs. Boussouara's Math Class, Holyrood Secondary
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  • This game was a challenge , it was hard because we only had ten seconds but a few people got 100%, including me (Jon Wallace 1.13J).

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Notes for Teacher: The five questions will show on an infinite loop (if you have Flash installed) so that it can be playing as the students enter the room. If there is any doubt about a net you can click the pause button then print out the net for cutting out and folding.

There is a printable worksheet to go with this activity.

Worksheet

 

Sketch of crazy dice

 

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Laptops In Lessons

Teacher, do your students have access to computers such as tablets, iPads or Laptops?  This page was really designed for projection on a whiteboard but if you really want the students to have access to it here is a concise URL for a version of this page without the comments:

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However it would be better to assign one of the student interactive activities below.

Laptops In Lessons

Here is the URL which will take them to the Dice Net Challenge.

Transum.org/go/?to=dice

Student Activity

 

Here is the URL which will take them to the Net Or Not activity.

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Student Activity

 

Sketch of crazy dice

Extension

Of the nets above that produced dice, which were right-handed and which were left-handed?

Left-handed Dice

Right-handed Dice
Sketch of crazy dice

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