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G10 Plans and elevations

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Shape sorter

A solid is made from cubes. By turning the shape it can be posted through each of these three holes:

Can you describe what this shape will look like?

Can you build this shape using interlocking cubes?

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Shape sorter

A solid is made from cubes. By turning the shape it can posted through each of these three holes:

Here is a picture of the shape that will fit:

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Plans and elevations

A solid can be drawn from various view points:

3 cm

7 cm

2 cm

2 cm

7 cm

Plan view

3 cm

7 cm

Front elevation3 cm

2 cm

Side elevation

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Front elevation: Side elevation: Plan view:

Choose the shape

A: B: C:C:

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Plans

Sometimes the plan of a solid made from cubes has numbers on each square to tell us the number of cubes on that base.

This plan, for example, 2 2 1

1

represents this solid:

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Drawing shapes from plans

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Shadows

What solid shape could produce this shadow?

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