List

3D Shapes - Short Problems

Daniel's Star
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Daniel's Star

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
filled star empty star empty star
A solid 'star' shape is created. How many faces does it have?
Net Result
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Net Result

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
filled star empty star empty star
The net shown here is cut out and folded to form a cube. Which face is then opposite the face marked X?
Painted Octahedron
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Painted Octahedron

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
filled star empty star empty star
What is the smallest number of colours needed to paint the faces of a regular octahedron so that no adjacent faces are the same colour?
Soma Surface
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Soma Surface

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
filled star empty star empty star
What is the surface area of the solid shown?
Placeholder: several colourful numbers
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rotation identification

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
filled star empty star empty star
Which of these can be obtained by rotating this shape?
Placeholder: several colourful numbers
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Multiplication Cube

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
filled star empty star empty star
The net shown is folded up to form a cube. What is the largest possible vertex product?
Red or Black
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Red or Black

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
filled star filled star empty star
How many edges of a cube need to be coloured black to mean every face has at least one black edge?
Blockupied
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Blockupied

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
filled star filled star empty star
A 1x2x3 block is placed on an 8x8 board and rolled several times.... How many squares has it occupied altogether?
Truncated Tetrahedron
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Truncated Tetrahedron

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
filled star filled star empty star
A tetrahedron has each corner cut off to produce a solid. What is the total length of the edges of this solid?
Net Profit
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Net Profit

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
filled star filled star empty star
The diagram shows the net of a cube. Which edge meets the edge X when the net is folded to form the cube?
Same Face
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Same Face

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
filled star filled star empty star
A cube is rolled on a plane, landing on the squares in the order shown. Which two positions had the same face of the cube touching the surface?
Magic Octahedron
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Magic Octahedron

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
filled star filled star filled star
Weekly Problem 20 - 2010
You have already used Magic Squares, now meet a Magic Octahedron...
Crawl Around the Cube
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Crawl Around the Cube

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
filled star filled star filled star
Weekly Problem 37 - 2010
An ant is crawling around the edges of a cube. From the description of his path, can you predict when he will return to his starting point?
Twelve Cubed
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Twelve Cubed

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
filled star empty star empty star
A wooden cube with edges of length 12cm is cut into cubes with edges of length 1cm. What is the total length of the all the edges of these centimetre cubes?
Dicey Directions
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Dicey Directions

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
filled star empty star empty star
An ordinary die is placed on a horizontal table with the '1' face facing East... In which direction is the '1' face facing after this sequence of moves?
Four Cubes
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Four Cubes

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
filled star empty star empty star
Four cubes are placed together to make a cuboid. What is the surface area of this cuboid?
Placeholder: several colourful numbers
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Which face?

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
filled star empty star empty star
Which faces are opposite each other when this net is folded into a cube?
Placeholder: several colourful numbers
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Stacked cubes

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
filled star empty star empty star
What is the total surface area of this shape?
Cubic Covering
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Cubic Covering

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
filled star filled star empty star
A blue cube has blue cubes glued on all of its faces. Yellow cubes are then glued onto all the visible blue facces. How many yellow cubes are needed?
Cubic Vision
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Cubic Vision

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
filled star filled star empty star
How many cubes can you see?
Painted Purple
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Painted Purple

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
filled star filled star empty star
Three faces of a $3 \times 3$ cube are painted red, and the other three are painted blue. How many of the 27 smaller cubes have at least one red and at least one blue face?
Facial Sums
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Facial Sums

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
filled star filled star empty star
Can you make the numbers around each face of this solid add up to the same total?
Pyramidal n-gon
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Pyramidal n-gon

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
filled star filled star empty star
The base of a pyramid has n edges. What is the difference between the number of edges the pyramid has and the number of faces the pyramid has?
Placeholder: several colourful numbers
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Stretched surfaces

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
filled star filled star empty star
The edges of a cube are stretched, can you find the new surface area?