Detectives! Three solids from the maths shelf were pressed in paint and left these footprints. What shape is each one? Which solid do you think made it?
A face is a flat side of a solid. When we press that flat side in paint, it leaves a footprint.
Watch each solid. Before it lands, say which footprint you think it will leave. One solid has no flat face at all. Can you spot it?
Now you are the detectives. At your table, press a solid into the dough, lift it and look at its footprint. Then turn the solid and press a different side. Is the footprint the same, or different?
Press and peek
In your maths copy, draw the footprint a cube would print. Write the word footprint under it.
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