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Objective: Wrapping and decorating a gift box.

Materials Required: An empty shoebox or any other cubical/cuboidal box, a sheet

of gift wrapping paper, some star cutouts, colourful ribbon/paper strips, some
decorating stones and glue.

Procedure:

Š First, cover the box with a wrapping paper.

Š The part of the box that we see or touch is its surface or
face. Paste a star on each face of the box.

 How many stars have you used? ________
Š The line where two faces of the box meet is called the edge.
Glue the colourful strips and put it along all its edges.

 Are the lengths of all the strips the same? ________

 How many strips have you used in all? ________
Š The meeting point of the edges is called a corner or vertex.
(The plural of vertex is vertices.) Fix a decorating stone on each

of the vertices.

 How many decorating stones have you used in all? ________

Š Wow! Your gift box is so beautiful.

 Thus, you observe that a cuboid/cube has ________ faces,
________ edges and ________ vertices.

Logical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Challenge Question
1. Using the dots shown here, how many rectangles can you create?
[Hint: A square is also a type of rectangle.]

2. Look at the pattern carefully and figure out the missing number.

4 3 5 4 6 5
10 17 ____

2 3 4

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