Question P4 Seeing it move
Can the shown arrangement of six squares fold to make a cube?
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Work out where the pieces land after a fold, cut or stack.
In this one. A valid cube net is connected and folds to six different faces; squares must not land on the same face.
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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