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More Christmas Boxes
What size square should you cut out of each corner of a 10 × 10 grid to make the box that would hold the greatest number of cubes?
What size square should you cut out of each corner of a 10 × 10 grid to make the box that would hold the greatest number of cubes?
What do you think is going to happen in this video clip? Are you surprised?
Cut differently-sized square corners from a square piece of paper to make boxes without lids. Do they all have the same volume?
Let's say you can only use two different lengths - 2 units and 4 units. Using just these 2 lengths as the edges how many different cuboids can you make?
A group of children are using measuring cylinders but they lose the labels. Can you help relabel them?
The challenge for you is to make a string of six (or more!) graded cubes.