Webinars SET B - Grade 7-8 - Sunday@3:15-4:15pm EST-Recording Webinar 9

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The session begins with a 3×3×3 cube-coloring warm-up: given the white and black portions, the instructor identifies the gray portion by eliminating answer choices using front, top, and right-side views, concluding the correct diagram is <strong>E</strong>. After a quick scoreboard update, the lesson shifts to key <strong>3D geometry</strong> topics for Math Kangaroo preparation: spatial reasoning (rotations, folds, cuts), interpreting <strong>2D representations</strong> of 3D objects, and working with <strong>cube nets</strong>, emphasizing that <strong>opposite faces</strong> do not share a vertex and can be found by labeling corresponding faces on nets.

Next, the instructor reviews counting cubes with painted faces on an \(n \times n \times n\) cube: <strong>3 faces painted</strong> are the 8 corner cubes; <strong>2 faces painted</strong> lie on edges and total \(12(n-2)\); <strong>1 face painted</strong> total \(6(n-2)^2\); and <strong>0 faces painted</strong> are \((n-2)^3\). They also explain similarity scaling: length scale factor \(R\), area \(R^2\), volume \(R^3\). General strategies include drawing, labeling, using complements, and symmetry.

Several practice problems follow: (1) completing a 3×3×3 cube from 7 cubes requires \(27-7=20\). (2) For a painted 9×9×9 cube, exactly two faces painted equals \(12(9-2)=84\). (3) A grid-walking “kangaroo” enters a loop and <strong>never stops</strong>. (4) Glued dice: compute surface dots using total dots per die (21) and adjust for hidden/glued faces, yielding \(21\times5=105\). (5) Rolling cube: positions <strong>1 and 6</strong> share the same face. A final folding-angle problem is solved to <strong>112.5°</strong>.

Keywords

3×3×3 cube coloring

spatial reasoning

3D geometry

2D representations of 3D objects

cube nets

opposite faces

painted cube counting formulas

n×n×n cube faces painted

similarity scaling (R, R^2, R^3)

Math Kangaroo practice problems