Question P4–P5–P6 Seeing it move
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The figure is the net of a cube. Which face is opposite face A when it is folded?
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Work out where the pieces land after a fold, cut or stack.
In this one. In a straight strip of three squares, the two end squares always fold up to face each other — so they are opposite; find every such strip, and the two faces left over must be the last pair.
Words like 'folded', 'cut along the dotted line' or 'stacked' appear beside a shape, and the question asks for a length or angle that only makes sense once the pieces are in their new positions.
Children try to calculate the answer before working out where the pieces actually end up, skipping the visualisation step that the whole question depends on.
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