This interactive whiteboard resource forms the first part of a themed series of resources that support the use of a Soma Cube in teaching. If you know about the Soma Cube then this resource is useful for showing a class the basic pieces and some of the shapes that can be made from them. Choose either shapes that can be made from a set of Soma pieces or the individual peices themselves and scroll through them using the arrows at the bottom of the screen.
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If you would like to know more about using the Soma Cube for problem solving lessons or developing spatial reasoning please see the supporting article on the new site designed to support the resources here. teacherledplus.com A number of activities and suggestions are made here. Alternatively the following book includes the original publication by Martin Gardner that brought the puzzle to the masses:The Colossal Book of Mathematics
View this Soma Overview interactive whiteboard resource.
There are two more resources designed to be used in a Soma themed series of lessons and these are:
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you should make it so you can move the peices around and study them more