Dice Nets

A Maths Starter of The Day

 

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Keywords: Starter | Shape (3D) | Number Patterns | Problem Solving

  • Jean Griffiths, Lawnswood School Leeds
  • Thursday, March 22, 2007
  • "March 25th comes up as a blank sheet. '1' at the top alternating with '12345' at the bottom when I press the 'H'(?) button."
  • Transum,
  • Sunday, March 25, 2007
  • "Sorry to hear that there's a problem Jean. It is probably because the Flash Player in your Internet browser has not been updated recently (version 8 is required). If your browser does not update itself you can download the latest version of the Flash player from the Adobe Web Site

    In the meantime click here for a version of this starter only requiring version 6 of Flash Player."
  • Scarlett Rowe, Lawnswood School Leeds
  • Wednesday, March 19, 2008
  • "A very good source of maths activity! I recomend it to all the teachers out there."
  • The Best Maths Class 7cd/M2, King Alfred's College Oxfordshire
  • Wednesday, March 25, 2009
  • "Molly, Natasha, Patrick, Ryan, Jordii, one other, Louis got it right. Everyone else got a headache ! Really good challenge."
  • Mr Kel, Fulford School
  • Friday, May 15, 2009
  • "Starter could easily be developed into accurate construction of the nets of cubes/dices using compasses and rulers and actually having a go at making the cubes/dices."
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  • Mr Edwards, Sheredes Set 2 Year 7
  • Friday, March 26, 2010
  • "Some of the group found this quite challenging, and others thought it was quite easy. Jack paris said 'a very good challenge and a good way to help with your nets'. Sydney said 'the cube part was easy but the die part was quite challenging. 'Sam said 'it was a brainteasing challenge but it was fun.'."
  • Mr Hill, Top Maths Group - BSCA
  • Friday, March 25, 2011
  • "Mr Hill's top maths group did really well - 6 of them got 100%."

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Notes for Teacher: The five questions will show on an infinite loop so that it can be playing as the students enter the room. If there is any doubt about a net you can click the pause button then print out the net for cutting out and folding.


Computer Teacher, do your students have access to computers?
Do you have "Laptops in Lessons"?

Whether your students each have a TabletPC or share a desktop PC, this activity lends itself to eLearning (Engaged Learning).

Laptop

Here is the URL which will take them to a concise version of this page.

Transum.org/go/?Start=March25

Here's the URL which will take
them to the Dice Number Challenge.

http://www.transum.org/go/?to=dice