Cone 3D Shape Net

How do I use this Cone Net resource in my classroom?

This Cone Net resource is a great way for 3rd through to 5th-grade students to get some hands-on experience with geometry and math in general. It is a printable cut-out of a 3D cone laid out in a 2D net so that students can then assemble it into a 3D model.

Laying the foundations for geometry at an early age can be beneficial as it can boost analytical reasoning, deductive reasoning, logical thinking, and problem-solving – all skills which will prove invaluable in their later academic life.

All of our resources have been devised, designed, and created by our team of qualified educators and designers with specific age groups and teaching standards in mind so you can focus on teaching and supporting your class rather than using up valuable prep time.

Whether this is your first time using one of our teacher-made resources or it’s your 100th, the Cone Net is just as easy to use as all of our other awesome resources. To do so, simply click the green “Download Now” button, print them off, and hand them out to your lucky students!

Twinkl Tip: We’d recommend pasting our Cone Net onto some card stock and then cutting out the shape as it will be a much sturdier material than the paper.

Are there resources similar to the Cone Net resource?

If the Cone Net resource was a big success then you might want to check out some of our other resources. Here at Twinkl, we believe that one of the best ways to teach kids is to provide a rich, stimulating, and fun learning environment for them to flourish. That’s why we’ve been busy making loads of geometry-based resources to do just that.

For more 3-dimensional fun, take a look at these other resources:

• Cube 3D Shape Net

• Triangular Prism 3D Shape Net

• * New * Heptagonal Prism 3D Shape Net

More fun facts about geometry

• Pythagoras’s theorem is one of the most well-known theorems in geometry – and being over 2500 years old it’s not surprising! Yep, that’s right, Pythagoras’s theorem was devised in 500 B.C.E.!

• If you are ever lucky enough to visit Greece, keep in mind when looking at all the awesome architecture that the ancient Greeks designed it all using geometry, specifically the golden ratio of 1.618.

• We know that geometry is a branch of math, but geometry itself has many of its own branches including Euclidean Geometry, Analytic, Projective, Differential, Topology, and Non-Euclidean.

• Apart from architecture and the ancient world, it is often overlooked that geometry is used in modern computing for a lot of tasks.