What this lesson covers
Nets & Surface Area is a 10-part Class 6 Mathematics lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, shows where it is used outside the textbook, names the mistakes that cost marks in an exam, ends with a recap of what to remember.
How it begins
A net is a 2D shape that folds up to make a 3D solid. Think of a cardboard box flattened out. Every face of the solid appears once in the net, joined along the edges that fold.
The 10 parts
- What a net is
- Faces, edges and vertices
- Nets of common solids
- Not every arrangement works
- What surface area means
- Surface area of a cube
- Surface area of a cuboid
- Where marks go
- What to remember
- Watch one worked through
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