• Volume
  Volume is the measure of the amount of space inside of a solid figure, like a cube, ball, cylinder or pyramid. It's units are always "cubic", that is, the number of little element cubes that fit inside the figure.
  The formula for the volume of a rectangular prism is:
  
  Area = l x w x h
  where:
  l = length
  w = width
  h = height
  For example, the volume of a shoe box (a parallelepiped that is 4 inches by 6 inches by 12 inches is 4 x 6 x 12 = 288 cubic inches. This means that it would take 288 little 1-inch cubes to fill the shoe box.
  

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