Stage: 4 Challenge Level: 
It might be worth looking at some simple cases with the spider and/or the fly in positions easy to work from.
Circles. Stage 5 needs dealing with. Surface and surface area. Real world. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Cuboids. Visualising. smartphone. Long problems. Pythagoras' theorem.
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