Seymour, Dale

Contains activities designed to help students in grades four through six develop thinking and problem-solving skills; presented in three difficulty levels in the categories of patterns, imagery, and logic.

Presents an introduction to tesselations, a special class of geometric patterns made up or one or more shapes, that will completely cover a surface with any gaps or overlaps, and includes illustrations, as well as techniques for generating tessellating designs.

Provides an alphabetical listing of over 250 math topics, each with a brief description of the topic, its level of difficulty, and a numerical list of books and magazines that may be used for related research.