Three Views Cube Puzzle — Build from Front, Top and Side

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1. Draw a card and study the three drawings on it.
2. Work out roughly how tall and how wide the shape must be.
3. Start stacking cubes inside the clear frame.
4. Check your build against each of the three views in turn.
5. Adjust until the front, the top and the side all match.

• Turning flat drawings into a solid shape in the head
• Checking work against more than one condition at the same time
• The first ideas of technical drawing, years before it is taught by name
• Persistence, since a build that matches two views often fails the third

• Build a shape yourself and ask your child to draw its three views
• Cover one view and see whether the other two are enough to solve it
• Race the same card and compare how each of you approached it