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Year 1 · Shapes & Geometry

Solids in everyday objects

3D shapes are solids you can hold: cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder, cone, pyramid.

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  1. Look at the faces: flat or curved?
  2. A ball is a sphere, a can is a cylinder, a dice is a cube, a party hat is a cone.

Worked example

A tin of beans
Two flat circles and a curved side
Cylinder

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A cube has 6 square faces; a cuboid has rectangles.

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