Here are some specific activities, investigations or visual aids we have picked out. Click anywhere in the grey area to access the resource. The options may go beyong the scope of this level of the Functional Skills requirements.
Nets Video Learn more about three-dimensional shapes and their nets.
Drawing 3D Objects Draw two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional objects on an isometric dotty grid.
Net or Not Drag the nets into the corresponding panels to show whether they would fold to form a cube.
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.
Here are some exam-style questions on this statement:
- "On centimetre squared or graph paper draw the front elevation, side elevation and plan view of this house using a scale of 1:100." ... more
- "The diagram shows the plan, front elevation and side elevation of a solid shape, drawn on a centimetre grid." ... more
- "An astronaut measures the angle of elevation of a light on the surface of a mysterious sphere on a faraway planet." ... more
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