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Grade 8 · Math · Unit 10 of 12

Top, Front and Side Views

Look at cube buildings from three sides

What your child practises

Children picture what a building made of cubes looks like from the top, front and side, and use views to work out how many cubes it has.

Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: 8.SS.5 · drawing and interpreting top, front and side views of 3-D objects built from right rectangular prisms

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A tower is 3 cubes tall and 1 cube wide. What is its top view?

    • 3 squares in a row
    • 1 square
    • a triangle
    • 3 squares in a column

  2. Question 2

    A tower is 3 cubes tall and 1 cube wide. What is its front view?

    • a circle
    • 3 squares in a row
    • 3 squares in a column
    • 1 square

  3. Question 3

    A cube has a top view, a front view and a side view. How do they compare?

    • all three are the same square
    • two are triangles
    • all three are different
    • they are circles

  4. Question 4

    Why is a top view useful to builders?

    • it shows how heavy the object is
    • it shows the cost of the object
    • it shows the colour of the object
    • it shows the footprint of the object

  5. Question 5

    A staircase has columns of 1, 2 and 3 cubes from left to right, one cube deep. What is the right side view?

    • 1 square
    • a row of 3 squares
    • a staircase of 6 squares
    • a column of 3 squares

  6. Question 6

    For the same grid (Row A: 2, 1; Row B: 1, 3), how tall is the right column in the front view?

    • 1 square
    • 3 squares
    • 4 squares
    • 2 squares

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