A curtain opens on a stage to reveal different shaped animated characters - a sphere, a cube and a pyramid.
NARRATOR: It’s crunch time for the 3D crew. And who’s going to take home the coveted, and totally pointless, prize of, eh… most properties?
Two cubes high-five as they prepare to compete.
NARRATOR: Well, anyway… A 3D cube has six square faces.
The faces of the cube are lit up to highlight all six. A judge writes 6 under faces on a scoreboard. Now the edges of the cube are highlighted. Then the judge writes 12 under edges, and the corners of the cube are highlighted next and 8 recorded under vertices.
NARRATOR: Edges – that’s twelve. Right, what about corners, or vertices – that’s the bits where the edges meet? Eight!
The cubes high-five each other as the crowd applauds.
NARRATOR: Oh, cube’s really smashing this! Time for the mighty, square-based pyramid. Let’s go!
Next we see the pyramids ready to compete. Their faces, edges and vertices are all highlighted and the scores written on the board.
NARRATOR: Faces? Five. Edges? Eight. And vertices? Five again. Good try pyramid, but cube’s still in the lead.
The crowd applaud and the pyramids high-five each other. Now we see the spheres ready to compete, and their faces, edges and vertices are recorded. A negative buzzer goes when zero is scored.
NARRATOR: Finally, what about the sphere? So, faces? Well, just the one. Edges? Zero. Vertices? None. Oh dear! Oh well.
The spheres are disappointed and one is angry.
NARRATOR: Oh come on, don’t be like that! Where you going?
The sphere kicks the score board and hurts his foot. He hops away.
NARRATOR: What a sore loser!
The scoreboard falls down, the competing sphere walks off disappointed, and the curtains close.
Ends.
Description
A 3D shape is a solid shape which has different properties to 2D shapes. 3D shapes have faces (sides), edges and vertices (corners).
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