Nets Of 3d Shapes - Animations

Nets Of A Solid - Animations

Demonstrations showing how some shapes are made up from their nets.
Check out the following interactive animations to explore the nets of 3D solids: Cube, cylinder, cone, and tetrahedron.

Cube
Show how the net of a cube folds to form the cube. (all the 11 possible nets of a cube are shown)

Cylinder
Show how the net of a cylinder folds to form the cylinder.

• Printable & Online Surface Area Worksheets

  Printable
  Nets of Solid Figures
  Find Surface Area using Nets
  Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms
  Surface Area of Right Prisms
  Surface Area of Solids (include composite solids)
  

  Online
  Surface Area of Cylinder
  Surface Area of Sphere
  Surface Area of Solids I
  Surface Area of Solids II
  Surface Area of Solids III
  Surface Area of Solids IV
  Surface Area of Solids V
  Surface Area of Cylinders & Pipes
  Surface Area of Cylinders & Spheres
  

Cone
Show how the net of a cone folds to form the cone.

Tetrahedron
Show how the net of a tetrahedron folds to form a tetrahedron.

For video lessons on how 3D shapes unfold into nets and how nets fold to form geometric solids, see: Nets of Solids - Video Lessons.

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