Thinking Inside the Box: The Prime Radicals, Season 1
Catalogue Number: GAP034
Producer: GAPC Productions
Subject: Mathematics
Language: English
Grade Level: PreK - 2, 3 - 5
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2011
Running Time: 15:00
Uncle Norm needs to mail a top secret package, but there’s a problem. The item he’s sendingis not regular, and it won’t fit into an ordinary box. The Rads will have to make their own. They call in a box designer who explains how boxes are made. They learn about vertices, faces and edges and discover the wonder of turning a flat, 2D template into a 3D solid shape.
The Gist: This episode is about common mathematical solids – a family comprised of the cube, prism, pyramid, sphere and cone. Nets are featured as tools for representing shapes in two dimensions.
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