Make a cube out of straws and have a go at this practical challenge.
Investigate the number of faces you can see when you arrange three cubes in different ways.
We need to wrap up this cube-shaped present, remembering that we can have no overlaps. What shapes can you find to use?
We had great solutions to this problem from children at Cupernham Junior School and also from Christopher. Both Scarlett from Cupernham and Christopher began by drawing the faces of the cube they had made:
Scarlett
Christopher
However, it is a little difficult to be clear how the sides fit together and Scarlett explained that she decided to draw the results as a net instead:
Then her friends joined in and sent us different nets of the same cube:
Sam
Abigail and William
Ed
Bethany
Thank you to you all for emailing us with your answers.