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Nets of a Cuboid

A cuboid is also a 3D shape in which flat faces are rectangles instead of squares. It also has
six faces, eight corners and twelve edges. Some nets of a cuboid are shown below. If you

fold each of the following nets, you will get a cuboid.

Cuboid
Nets of a Cylinder

A cylinder is one of the basic 3D shapes. It has two identical circular bases joined by a
curved surface at a particular distance from the centre which is the height of the cylinder.

Cylinder
Nets of a Cone

A cone is a 3D solid shape with a flat and a curved surface pointed towards the top.

Cone

drawing Cubes and Cuboids

Isometric dot paper is a special type of paper on which dots are drawn in the form of an

equilateral triangle. Look at the square dot paper and isometric dot paper shown below.
Observe the difference between them.

It is a square dot paper. A square It is an isometric An equilateral
dot paper . triangle

Teacher’s Comparing a variety of 2D and 3D shapes in the surroundings allows students to explore some of the similarities
Tip and differences among them.

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