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Name a cube

Students identify and name cubes in everyday objects, recognizing the solid shape regardless of its size or orientation.

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Name a cube

Kindergarten · Identifying and Naming Shapes · question 1 of 3

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12 rungs. A star at the top.

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Cube? Type its number.

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A cube has six square faces.

All faces are the same size.

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Read it: Name a solid: look at its faces

A sphere is round all over. It has no flat faces, so it rolls every way.

  1. Look for flat faces.
  2. Look for a curved side or a point.
  3. Round all over, no flat faces: it is a sphere.

A solid's flat faces tell its name.

A ball, a globe and an orange are all spheres.

A solid with a point and a round flat face is a cone.

Look at the faces. They tell you the solid's name.

Calling a sphere a circle.

A circle is flat. A sphere is round all over: you can hold it.

How many flat faces does a cube have? — 6. A cube has 6 flat faces, and every face is a square.

What is this shape? A cube!

Today we're learning a special shape. Look at this block — what do you notice?

Kindergarten · Finding cubes around us

It has flat sides, called faces. Let's count them together.

One face on the front.

Two — the top.

Three — the side.

If we could spin it, we'd see six faces in all — and every face is a square!

A shape with six square faces has a special name. It's called a cube.

Cubes are all around us! Dice are cubes. Sugar cubes are cubes. Building blocks are cubes.

Cubes can be tiny or huge. Big or small, if it has six square faces, it's still a cube.

So remember: six square faces means cube. You did it!

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While they climb, your page writes one true line to ask about tonight, and a short note each Sunday.

MayaGrade 3 · Mathematics
Did you know?

A chessboard has 64 squares — share them out between the 8 rows and each row holds exactly 8.

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1 star — one skill mastered, every rung of its ladder climbed
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Divide within 100

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MayaGrade 3 · Mathematics

Maya earned 2 stars this week — Interpret multiplication as equal groups, which took 6 answers over 3 days before its star landed 3 days ago and Multiply by 6, 7, 8 and 9. Next up: Divide within 100.

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