Simon’s Times Tables Visualization Poster
My Times Tables Visualization Poster has arrived! Will probably present this at @CC_Amsterdam @ProcessingOrg Community Day Amsterdam! https://t.co/ChTg0eOLIn
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.
Au Revoir, definitions based on physical objects!
To mark this epic day, when the world is redefining the kilogram and saying goodbye to basing any definitions on physical objects, we are celebrating with a pie, based on … Continue reading Au Revoir, definitions based on physical objects!
Simon’s Times Tables Visualization is Now a Huge Poster!
Simon has made an enormous poster from his earlier animated version of the Times Tables Visualization! Simon is hoping to present this project at the Processing Community Day in Amsterdam … Continue reading Simon’s Times Tables Visualization is Now a Huge Poster!
Looking for Primes
Simon programmed this grid of numbers and then used Paint to color the numbers in that are multiples of other numbers, an Eratosthenes way to look for prime numbers. When … Continue reading Looking for Primes
Simon’s Proof for the Hundred Board Trick
Simon learned a new math trick last night called Hundred Board. He came up with two ways to prove why the trick always works:
Simon is programming a Logo code editor, but is stuck with one tricky function
Simon is programming a full implementation Logo code editor in p5.js (JavaScript), as part of Coding Train’s Logo Coding Challenge. Logo is a coding language that Simon says he has … Continue reading Simon is programming a Logo code editor, but is stuck with one tricky function
Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 3: Inaccessible Numbers.
This is the third (and in my opinion, the best so far) video in Simon’s short series Infinities Driving You Mad. In this episode, Simon takes us into the strange … Continue reading Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 3: Inaccessible Numbers.
Water Fountain Powered by Sound Waves
We built a water fountain powered by sound waves! There is a little speaker attached to the bottom of the water basin. Warning: the sound frequencies in the video may … Continue reading Water Fountain Powered by Sound Waves
Microstructures Interfering With Light
What looks like strange planets in dark space are actually glimpses of the microstructures forming the Giant Blue Morpho’s wings, as seen through a microscope. Simon told me about how … Continue reading Microstructures Interfering With Light
Horizontal force
Going for a walk quickly turns into yet another Physics experiment. “Here’s a challenge: what if you can force the ball down so much and induce so much horizontal motion … Continue reading Horizontal force
Why Cookies Get Bigger in the Oven
Simon is baking Dutch traditional “pepernootjes” (“pepper nuts” or spicy cookies) and explains why they get bigger in size after you put them in the oven and what the optimal … Continue reading Why Cookies Get Bigger in the Oven
Upon waking up
Simon said today upon waking up: “If a Physics constant suddenly popped up in pure mathematics, that would be really weird. If there is more than one universe, that would … Continue reading Upon waking up
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