Rectangle Day

Our Math Holiday is rectangle day. Rectangle day was made long ago when the definition of a rectangle was developed. French, from Medieval Latin r ctangulum, a right triangle, from Late Latin r ctiangulum. Rectangles are defined as a four-sided plane figure with four right angles, or a parallelogram with four right angles. People celebrate this exciting holiday on the 4th of July. Why is that? It is because on the 4th of July many people show that they are patriotic and people hang American flags all over the place. American flags are made of mostly rectangles and since the flag is so important, rectangle day was made a holiday too.
On rectangle day all the food that you eat has to be rectangular of course. Foods like rectangular sandwiches, ice-cream sandwiches, graham crackers, club crackers, brownies, fudge, rice crispy treats, and lots of chocolate bars. You have to do the rectangle dance, instead of the ...