Free Grade 3 Working with Nets Quizzes
Free Grade 3 quizzes for Working with Nets: 12 real questions with a full answer key and worked solutions. Volume is how much space a 3D shape takes up. For a cuboid, multiply length × width × height. Surface area is the total area of all faces.
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Learning objectives
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- RememberIdentify working with nets
Identify working with nets accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
- UnderstandExplain working with nets
Explain working with nets accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
- ApplyCalculate working with nets
Calculate working with nets accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
- AnalyseCompare working with nets
Compare working with nets accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
Prerequisites
Close these gaps first — each has its own free lesson, worksheet and quiz.
How Working with Nets works
Volume is how much space a 3D shape takes up. For a cuboid, multiply length × width × height. Surface area is the total area of all faces.
12 practice questions
Easy to hard, 24 marks in total. Try them first, then open the answers.
- 1.Find the volume of a cuboid 3 cm × 6 cm × 8 cm.[1]
- 2.Find the volume of a cuboid 7 cm × 5 cm × 3 cm.[1]
- 3.Find the volume of a cuboid 8 cm × 10 cm × 2 cm.[1]
- 4.Find the volume of a cuboid 4 cm × 3 cm × 7 cm.[1]
- 5.Find the volume of a cuboid 4 cm × 5 cm × 9 cm.[2]
- 6.Find the volume of a cuboid 9 cm × 4 cm × 7 cm.[2]
- 7.Find the volume of a cuboid 5 cm × 3 cm × 9 cm.[2]
- 8.Find the volume of a cuboid 2 cm × 3 cm × 3 cm.[2]
- 9.Find the surface area of a cuboid 3 cm × 8 cm × 4 cm.[3]
- 10.Find the surface area of a cuboid 4 cm × 4 cm × 3 cm.[3]
- 11.Find the surface area of a cuboid 4 cm × 4 cm × 2 cm.[3]
- 12.Find the surface area of a cuboid 5 cm × 4 cm × 7 cm.[3]
Show answers and working
1. 144 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 3 × 6 × 8 = 144 cm³.
2. 105 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 7 × 5 × 3 = 105 cm³.
3. 160 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 8 × 10 × 2 = 160 cm³.
4. 84 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 4 × 3 × 7 = 84 cm³.
5. 180 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 4 × 5 × 9 = 180 cm³.
6. 252 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 9 × 4 × 7 = 252 cm³.
7. 135 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 5 × 3 × 9 = 135 cm³.
8. 18 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 2 × 3 × 3 = 18 cm³.
9. 136 cm²
Three pairs of faces: 24, 32, 12. 2 × (24 + 32 + 12) = 136 cm².
10. 80 cm²
Three pairs of faces: 16, 12, 12. 2 × (16 + 12 + 12) = 80 cm².
11. 64 cm²
Three pairs of faces: 16, 8, 8. 2 × (16 + 8 + 8) = 64 cm².
12. 166 cm²
Three pairs of faces: 20, 28, 35. 2 × (20 + 28 + 35) = 166 cm².
Worked examples
Find the volume of a cuboid 2 cm × 4 cm × 7 cm.
- Volume = length × width × height.
- 2 × 4 × 7 = 56 cm³.
- Answer: 56 cm³
Find the volume of a cuboid 9 cm × 9 cm × 9 cm.
- Volume = length × width × height.
- 9 × 9 × 9 = 729 cm³.
- Answer: 729 cm³
Find the surface area of a cuboid 9 cm × 5 cm × 7 cm.
- Three pairs of faces: 45, 35, 63.
- 2 × (45 + 35 + 63) = 286 cm².
- Answer: 286 cm²
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Common mistakes
What learners typically get wrong, and how to fix it.
Adds the dimensions instead of multiplying.
Correction: Volume = l × w × h.
Counts only three faces for surface area.
Correction: A cuboid has six faces — three matching pairs.
Teacher tips
- · Build cuboids from cubes before using the formula.
Parent tips
- · Work out how many sugar cubes fit in a box.
Real-life applications
- · Filling a fish tank, wrapping a present.
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Frequently asked
- Is this Grade 3 Working with Nets quiz really free?
- Yes. Every quizzes on FreeMathWorksheet is free to use, print and share — no account, no paywall and no watermark.
- What should a learner already know before this?
- Start with Introducing Nets, Perimeter and Area. Each one has its own free lesson, worksheet and quiz.
- How is the quiz sequenced?
- Recognition first, then understanding, application, reasoning and finally mastery — the same ladder used across every free resource on the platform.
- What comes next after Working with Nets?
- Move on to Nets in Context, Surface Area, Volume of Prisms, Volume of Cylinders, which build directly on this idea.
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