Joules per second
The new Adventures in Science video episode by SparkFun is out! This time on electric power.
Author: Geeks out of the Box
This is a blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. We write this blog together, share their projects and thoughts on their journey towards self-dicovery. They’re growing up in a supportive non-coercive learning environment. We deeply believe in interest-based, self-paced education and have had to move countries to make this possible as a family.
Visit Simon’s website at https://simontiger.com/
We are a family from Amsterdam who moved to Antwerp because homeschooling is illegal in The Netherlands.
This blog started as https://antwerpenhomeschooling.wordpress.com in March 2016. Over the years, most of our entries have gravitated towards exploring together with Simon as he has developed an insatiable passion for programming, math and science. His sister Neva is treading on his heals. We changed or name to Geeks of the Box in May 2021.
We fixed the PiTop! Can’t believe it worked!
It was Simon’s idea to reimage the corrupted SD-card, he tried doing it himself the morning after the crash. He downloaded Noobs and Raspbian from RaspberryPi’s website but couldn’t go … Continue reading We fixed the PiTop! Can’t believe it worked!
Trial and Error
From the Monday math practice with Brilliant.org (Basic Mathematics>Reasoning Skills>Trial and Error): This one with dividing fractions caused some difficulty:
Telduivel. The counting devil.
Simon loves the book Telduivel, where a boy is taken on a mathematical adventure by a “counting devil. Many favourite themes are covered from a new angle. Here for example … Continue reading Telduivel. The counting devil.
PiTop, day 2 (Tuesday)
Didn’t really feel like going to his first Fench class this morning. All he wanted to do before and after French class was program: We were utterly shattered when at … Continue reading PiTop, day 2 (Tuesday)
PiTop, day 1 (Monday)
Yesterday, while we were celebrating Halloween, Simon had more important things to do: he assembled his first laptop and spent hours programming it.
550 jumps
Simon and Neva invented a game of hopping inside the trampoline on one foot and one knee and counting in sessions, they later added all of their jumps together and … Continue reading 550 jumps
Tea with sugar
This weekend was marked with another milestone: Simon read his first Chinese sentence without pinyin.
Simon calculates colour probabilities. #RRGGBB
In the video below Simon applies his knowledge of combinatorics to calculate the total number of possible colours one can create in CSS. I didn’t ask him to do this. … Continue reading Simon calculates colour probabilities. #RRGGBB
More HTML
On Saturday Simon continued studying html. He didn’t know I was filming him: The codes he made/ copied/ studied via the http://www.w3schools.com/html:
HTML
Discovered today: a website teaching html Simon trained himself to make buttons and more. On the down side, got completely stuck while trying to move further in JavaScript in Code Academy, … Continue reading HTML
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