Nothing But Nets

I just wanted to share one of my favorite products with you all.  I purchased these solids pictured below for our school two years ago and all of the teachers love using these to teach students the plane shapes that make up a solid.  They are great for helping students identify nets of solids also. Today I taught a class in which the teacher was absent, and I used these solids that unfold into nets.  After looking at these, students took paper nets and listed the shapes they saw in the nets and then labeled the solids with sticky notes.  Next they composed their 3 dimensional solids into other shapes such as robots and rocket ships.  See the following pictures below to take a peek at some of the students’ creations.

Folding Geometric Shapes. Available from most math educational catalogs.

Robots

Rocket Ship