Webinars SET A - Grade 7-8 - Sunday@3:15-4:15pm EST-Recording Webinar 6

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In this lesson, students engage with a series of 3D geometry problems focusing on spatial reasoning, visualization, and understanding three-dimensional shapes like cubes and prisms. The instructor starts with warming up on identifying blocks with equivalent shapes by mentally rotating and matching cube combinations. Emphasis is placed on renaming for easy tracking of participants.<br /><br />Key concepts include nets of cubes, where two-dimensional shapes fold to form 3D objects, and understanding opposite faces on cubes by using color pairing to identify which sides match when folded. This technique is critical for visualizing folded shapes and solving related problems.<br /><br />Several example problems challenge students to determine views of cubes and cubes constructed from smaller blocks, maximizing the number of cubes consistent with given views, and calculating sums of dots on cube faces sharing a vertex. Paper folding problems test the ability to reverse-engineer cut shapes after folds, highlighting the importance of unfolding to visualize resulting shapes.<br /><br />Participants solve problems involving folding rectangular strips into tripods, color matching on touching edges, and reconstructing the missing face of a large cube built from smaller colored cubes. Throughout, students practice rotating and matching shapes mentally to develop spatial reasoning.<br /><br />The instructor encourages hands-on activities like folding paper and drawing to aid visualization and provides a scoring system to track progress. Discussions clarify difficult points, ensuring comprehension of complex 3D visualization tasks.<br /><br />Ultimately, this session equips learners with vital strategies for interpreting 3D objects, nets, and spatial relationships—skills essential for success in advanced geometry and cognitive ability tests.

Keywords

3D geometry

spatial reasoning

visualization

cubes

prisms

nets of cubes

mental rotation

paper folding

color matching

spatial relationships