2 meet Leo Meet Leo Brightest kid on the block Bright as in IQ off the scale inventive as in Leonardo da Vinci inventive and way way ahead of his time Block as in Stone Age block Stone Age as in 30,000 years ago So that’s Leo Then there’s Pallas Leo’s pet Pallas is wild and he’s OK with being called Stone Age too after all his ancestors have been around for millions of years And that’s more than you can say for Leo’s You won’t see many Pallas cats around today unless you happen to be visiting the icy cold wastes of Arctic Siberia at the top of Russia
Four EQUAL SIDES Leo and Pallas are practicing their army drill Watch me says Leo I’ll mark out the perfect square See I take one step in this direction Then I turn smartly and take one in this direction Now I turn smartly again and take one in this direction Then You turn smartly again and come back to the place where you started Pallas shows he understands Good says Leo Now it’s your turn Just 4 moves It’s quite easy But Pallas can make a square without moving at all After all he has four legs one at each corner You’ll never make a soldier says Leo
5 SQUARE A square is a two dimensional or 2-D cshape This means it has length and width A square has 4 sides that are of equal length Its length is the same as its width In mathematics we show that the sides are equal using this sign The Testudo Testudo means tortoise in the Italian language Roman soldiers used their shields to make a kind of shell like a tortoise shell They raised their shields above their heads and held them in front of their bodies The Testudo formation protected them against arrows or objects thrown from defenders on the walls above
