3D shapes and their properties

There are 49 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to 3D shapes and their properties
Guess What?
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Guess what?

Age
7 to 11
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Can you find out which 3D shape your partner has chosen before they work out your shape?
Fill Me Up Too
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Fill me up too

Age
14 to 16
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In Fill Me Up we invited you to sketch graphs as vessels are filled with water. Can you work out the equations of the graphs?
Tet-Trouble
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Tet-trouble

Age
14 to 16
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Is it possible to have a tetrahedron whose six edges have lengths 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 units?
Hamiltonian Cube
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Hamiltonian cube

Age
11 to 16
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Weekly Problem 36 - 2007
Find the length along the shortest path passing through certain points on the cube.
Cola can
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Cola can

Age
11 to 14
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An aluminium can contains 330 ml of cola. If the can's diameter is 6 cm what is the can's height?

Nine Colours
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Nine colours

Age
11 to 16
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Can you use small coloured cubes to make a 3 by 3 by 3 cube so that each face of the bigger cube contains one of each colour?
Funnel
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Funnel

Age
14 to 16
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A plastic funnel is used to pour liquids through narrow apertures. What shape funnel would use the least amount of plastic to manufacture for any specific volume ?
Marbles in a box
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Marbles in a box

Age
11 to 16
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How many winning lines can you make in a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses?
Immersion
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Immersion

Age
14 to 16
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Various solids are lowered into a beaker of water. How does the water level rise in each case?
Cubes
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Cubes

Age
7 to 11
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How many faces can you see when you arrange these three cubes in different ways?