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Cube Net: Fold and Unfold

  • Mathematics
  • Class 4–6
  • 3D model
  • English

Cube Net: Fold and Unfold: a 3D model for Class 4–6 Mathematics, covering a cube has 6 equal square faces, a net is a flat shape that folds into a solid, squares fold about the edge they share, every face of the cube is covered exactly once, unfolding reverses the same folds.

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Also called

cube net · net of a cube · fold a cube · unfold a cube · make a box · paper cube · nets of solids · not a net · six squares · 3D shapes from 2D

Topics

  • a cube has 6 equal square faces
  • a net is a flat shape that folds into a solid
  • squares fold about the edge they share
  • every face of the cube is covered exactly once
  • unfolding reverses the same folds
  • some six-square layouts are not nets: two squares land on one side and another side is left open

About this model

A GLB file of about 598 KB, shown in Lably's 3D viewer and, on a phone, placed in your room with AR. Credit: Cube-net layouts and the flat frame footprints come from "3D shape nets" (Cube-net-A, Cube-not-net) by Sarah Hayman, Tactiles (tactiles.eu), CC BY-SA 4.0. Hinged squares, letters and animation authored for Lably; letters use Droid Sans Bold (Apache 2.0). | CC BY-SA 4.0 (this model contains geometry derived from CC BY-SA 4.0 Tactiles files, so it is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0)

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