Math Playground
Activities

Solids

Find a cube, sphere, cylinder in your house — count the faces.

Look around the room. Hunt for cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones, pyramids, prisms. They're everywhere once you see them.

Common 3D shapes in the wild

  • Cube — dice, sugar cube, building block
  • Cylinder — soup can, candle, drum
  • Sphere — ball, orange, bubble
  • Cone — ice cream cone, traffic cone, party hat
  • Pyramid — Egyptian pyramid, tent

Count faces, edges and vertices for each. Euler's formula: V − E + F = 2 (for any convex solid).