Sketching Nets
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Approach:  Independent
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Level: Year 8
Focus: Sketching nets for 3D solids  
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Answer booklet
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Questions/instructions:

Sketch a net for each solid. The first one has been done for you.

 
Rectangular Prism
 
   
 
   
 
% responses
2009 ('05)
y4
y8
     
1. Triangular Prism
 
 
Triangles: two      84 (81) 
  one 1 (5) 
none or more than two 15 (14)
Rectangles: three 70 (72) 
  one or two 14 (15)
none or more than three 16 (13)
Sketch will fold into appropriate 3-D shape (solid): yes 70 (71)
     
2. Square-Based Pyramid
 
 
Triangles: four   89 (87)
  one to three 3 (2)
none or more than four 8 (11)
Squares: one 86 (82)
  more than one square 1 (0)
none 13 (18)
Sketch will fold into appropriate 3-D shape (solid): yes 84 (80)
     
3. Cylinder
 
 
Circles: two   69 (66)
  one 3 (5)
none or more than two circles 28 (29)
Rectangles: one 53 (52)
  more than one 9 (7)
none 38 (41)
Sketch will fold into appropriate 3-D shape (solid): yes 33 (38)

Total score:
15
  26 (34)
12–14
34 (26)
9–11
20 (18)
6–8
9 (7)
0–5
11 (15)
Subgroup Analysis [Click on charts to enlarge] :
Year 8


Commentary:
More than two thirds of students successfully sketched nets for the triangular prism and square-based pyramid, but only one third managed the cylinder successfully. Performance was very similar in 2005 and 2009.