Nets of Solids
Unfold a cube, cuboid, prism, pyramid, cylinder or cone into a net and fold it back, browse all 11 nets of a cube and see the surface area worked out.
Free, runs in the browser, no sign-in or installation.
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Area
- Geometry
- Level
- Primary and secondary school
What you can do
- Set the sizes, then drag the slider or press play to watch the solid unfold into a net and fold back; drag to turn it.
- Choose any of the 11 nets of a cube or cuboid, or two nets for each regular prism and pyramid, from triangular to hexagonal.
- The card counts the faces, edges and vertices and works out the surface area; vertex labels, edge lengths and face areas can be shown too.
- Practise with checked answers: decide whether a shape is a net of a cube and find the face that ends up opposite the blue one.
- Print the net to cut out and fold, with or without glue tabs, and save the view as a PNG.
Pictures in the Gallery41
Ready-made pictures made in this app, to download as PNG.
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