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A table of “2 to the power of”, starting with to the power of -3
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.
Simon’s Rhombi Numberline
Simon has made a system that explains how to construct bigger 3D-objects using smaller ones. For example, in the first video he constructs Cuboctahedron using: cube (6 squares) octahedron (8 … Continue reading Simon’s Rhombi Numberline
The real thing
Simon was very excited today about his first real chemistry workshop. He has set a few experiments this week (including yesterday at his gifted club), but today it was finally … Continue reading The real thing
Water Xylophone
This video shows Simon play the Happy Birthday tune on his self-made “water xylophone”. In the following video you can see him actually make the xylophone meticulously checking every tone. … Continue reading Water Xylophone
Formulas to save the fingers
Simon wrote these two “formulas” to explain how time (T1) works in one second (S2) of fast and slow motion film. S1 is “sneller” (Dutch for “faster”) T2 is “trager” … Continue reading Formulas to save the fingers
Rendezvous with Jupiter
Tonight was a big night: Simon’s first visit to a real observatory. He had not really been doing any astronomy in the past few months so we were wondering how … Continue reading Rendezvous with Jupiter
Seven times more
Simon takes his staccato’s and forte’s seriously. He has been training harder than ever saying his teacher often asks him to repeat the same piece up to 7 times. It … Continue reading Seven times more
More surprises!
Simon talks to himself a lot. In English. Since recently Neva has been trying to join him. They get a special kick out of plaing out the tackiest YouTube unwrapping … Continue reading More surprises!
Simon made a Magformers S.T.E.A.M Master Set castle
Simon made this blog entry: What is this? That’s a castle. It doesn’t look like it, because that’s the area. You can watch this video to see if that’s a … Continue reading Simon made a Magformers S.T.E.A.M Master Set castle
Russian Grammar Game
Russian grammar has kicked off easily with these awesome cards (a set of 6 boxes, 48 cards per box).Explained prefixes, roots, suffixes and endings while learning about the spelling of … Continue reading Russian Grammar Game
Day 2 at the gifted club
Yesterday was Simon’s second day at GEMZ, the gifted club he attends once a week. I have received my belated Mom’s Day gift (bath salt bottle that Simon arranged in … Continue reading Day 2 at the gifted club
Math is in the air
Playing outside also means doing lots of math. Yesterday on the beach Simon played something like nine different games with Grandmom. All those games (which he gave funny Russian names … Continue reading Math is in the air
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