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3D Circles
Grab some real life cones, cylinders, spheres, prisms (sellotape, a tin can, football, tennis ball etc) and print these templates with formulae prompts, for students find the volumes.
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Area & Volume Formulae
Crib sheet of area & volume formula, includes parallelogram, trapezium, prism, cylinder, sphere, cone...
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Plans and Elevations
Real life plans and elevations; match the house plans to the images. Not as easy as it looks! There are two sets included here, one easier and one harder. PDF here.
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Impossible Shapes
Decide which of these are impossible and which can be made. A good starter activity for drawing using isometric paper or for building with multilink cubes.
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Max Box
What's the biggest area you can contain with x cm of string? Whats the biggest volume you can contain with an A4 sheet of paper? Not as easy as it seems!
Our answers and Autograph file used.
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Autograph File: Diagonal of a Cube
A 'dynamic' 3D visualization for helping pupils to see how to calculate the length of a diagonal of a cube given the length of its side.
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Dimensions
An amalgamation of questions from exam papers. Pupils decide if each expression is a volume, area, length or neither. Answers included. PDF here.
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