Determine an opposite or adjacent face after folding a cube net.
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Practise it now
Drag the fold track and watch the flat net close into a cube.
This exercise practises track cube faces from a net alongside its own main skill, Nets & Solids.
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A worked example
One question of the kind this skill is tested with, worked all the way through: the reasoning, and what the wrong answers are there to catch.
Lid and base of a folded cube
Watch the star face rise to become the lid of the cube.
the two dots face
the circle face
the star face
the dot face
Answer: the circle face
How you get there
A cube has three pairs of opposite faces, so fixing the lid fixes the base too. The circle is not two steps along a straight line from the star, so the counting trick says nothing here - but folding the net closes the two of them onto opposite sides of the cube all the same. The two-dots shares a hinge with the star, so it folds up to touch it instead.
Why the other answers tempt
The two-dots face becomes a wall of the cube, not the base.
If they are stuck, say this
There is no straight run of three faces through the star here, so the counting trick will not help. Fold the net up one flap at a time and watch which face ends up out of sight behind it.
Drag the fold track and watch the flat net close into a cube.
This engine’s own main skill is Nets & Solids. It practises track cube faces from a net alongside it.
On a cross-shaped net the four arms fold up into the four walls, the middle becomes the floor and the tail flips over to become the lid. Faces two steps apart in a straight line end up facing each other: middle↔tail, and the two arms across from each other. Faces that touch in the net can never be opposite - they share a hinge, so they meet at a corner.
Step 1. Fold it. Drag the fold track all the way across - watch the six faces close into a cube.
Step 2. Opposite faces. Now the real question: which face ends up OPPOSITE the moon?
What to say if they get stuck
Drag the coral knob slowly - the flaps swing up one at a time.
Scrub back and forth. Watch where the moon flap ends up, then look straight across the box.
On a cross net, two faces are opposite when there is exactly one face between them in a straight line. The moon and the heart are two apart down the upright.
The 11+ does not test these skills in isolation, and practising one in the wrong order wastes the practice. These are the skills the curriculum map connects this one to.
How track cube faces from a net differs from the skills beside it
The same exercise practises one other skill, and telling them apart is often the difficulty rather than the exercise itself. On this page the skill is: determine an opposite or adjacent face after folding a cube net, and it stops where one fixed net and one face relation.
Questions parents ask about track cube faces from a net
Answered from what the skill map records about this skill, not from a template. Every answer here is on the page, and the same questions are the page's FAQ structured data.
Determine an opposite or adjacent face after folding a cube net. It is one of 55 named maths skills in the 11+, in the geometry strand, and this page carries 1 interactive exercise that practises it.
The skill map puts identify a cube net first. Face tracking presumes a valid cube net. If track cube faces from a net keeps going wrong, that is the thing to check before doing more of this one.
The two-dots face becomes a wall of the cube, not the base. The wrong answers on this skill are built out of that, not out of random numbers, so it is worth naming out loud before your child meets it under time pressure.
Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. There is no straight run of three faces through the star here, so the counting trick will not help. Fold the net up one flap at a time and watch which face ends up out of sight behind it.
The skill map draws the line here: One fixed net and one face relation. A question past that line is testing a different named maths skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.
The geometry strand holds 15 skills that are tested together, and the pages next to track cube faces from a net are translate a coordinate, classify an angle and compose coordinate transformations. Each has its own exercise and its own link, and none of them needs an account.
Use Cube Net Folder, embedded on this page. It is the exercise the skill map attaches to track cube faces from a net, it runs in the browser with no account to make, nothing is scored, and nothing a child does here is recorded or sent anywhere. It also has its own link, so you can send it to a child without sending them anywhere else first.
Track cube faces from a net rests on something else being secure first
This skill depends on identify a cube net. A free diagnostic checks those alongside every other maths skill, so you find out whether the problem is here or underneath it.
