Cut Nets
Printing out the shapes, cutting them out and folding them up may help. Here is a downloadable word document to help.
The shapes are a cube, cuboid, tetrahedron, square pyramid, pentagonal pyramid, hexagonal pyramid, triangular prism, pentagonal prism, trapezoid prism.
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