Stage: 2 Challenge Level: 
How about making a few nets and seeing for yourself.
Cubes. Working systematically. Surface and surface area. Practical Activity. Nets. Generalising. Compound transformations. Visualising. Interactivities. Tangram.
Published February 2003.
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