{"id":7676,"date":"2012-02-06T01:37:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T01:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/?p=7676"},"modified":"2012-02-07T01:41:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T01:41:55","slug":"year-4-investigate-if-all-3d-cube-nets-make-a-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/year-4-investigate-if-all-3d-cube-nets-make-a-cube\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 4 Investigate if all 3d Cube Nets make a Cube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/yr-4-cube-nets-06-02-12-4.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"7681\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/year-4-investigate-if-all-3d-cube-nets-make-a-cube\/attachment\/yr-4-cube-nets-06-02-12-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/yr-4-cube-nets-06-02-12-4.jpg?fit=400%2C388\" data-orig-size=\"400,388\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"yr-4-cube-nets-06-02-12-4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/yr-4-cube-nets-06-02-12-4.jpg?fit=300%2C291\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/yr-4-cube-nets-06-02-12-4.jpg?fit=400%2C388\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7681\" title=\"yr-4-cube-nets-06-02-12-4\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/yr-4-cube-nets-06-02-12-4.jpg?resize=200%2C194\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/yr-4-cube-nets-06-02-12-4.jpg?resize=200%2C194 200w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/yr-4-cube-nets-06-02-12-4.jpg?resize=300%2C291 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/yr-4-cube-nets-06-02-12-4.jpg?w=400 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>In our Year 4 Maths group we discovered that you can make many different net arrangements with six 2d squares, but are they all nets that all fold into a 3d cube?\u00a0 We decided to investigate this further.\u00a0 We used square tiles and masking tape to create each net and then tried to fold them up.\u00a0 We started to find that we were getting better at visualizing the net being folded up and could make pretty accurate predictions about which nets would or wouldn&#8217;t make a cube before we tested them.\u00a0 If you would like to have a go, try<a href=\"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/yr-4-nets_for_a_cube_investigation-feb-2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> our worksheet<\/a> and test the nets yourself.\u00a0 We also investigated dice nets.\u00a0 You can have a go at arranging the numbers on the dice net that we found most challenging <a href=\"http:\/\/grade3abc.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/dice-net-challenge.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"500\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/provolearning.com\\\/blog\\\/school-news\\\/year-4-investigate-if-all-3d-cube-nets-make-a-cube\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:65587034}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 500px; 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