Being able to identify the key features of shapes can help us in this lesson.
How many edges does each shape have?
A rectangular prism has $6$6 rectangular faces, $8$8 vertices, and $12$12 edges.
This video looks at the properties of a cube and a rectangular prism.
Here is a rectangular prism.
There are $\editable{}$ faces.
There are $\editable{}$ vertices.
There are $\editable{}$ edges.
A cube is a special type of rectangular prism. It has all the same properties, except all of its faces are squares instead of rectangles.