a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon has nearly completed the basic equations and inequalities course on Khan Academy. Every time his math teacher comes they solve a couple of inequalities from the course and what … Continue reading Inequalities Machine 2.0
Simon programmed this beautiful rainbow all by himself in Processing (Java). He went to http://clrs.cc/ (also a http://mrmrs.io/ project) to look for the hexadecimals and then used http://html-color-codes.info/ to translate the hexadecimals into … Continue reading Somewhere Oover the Rainbow
Simon is a big fan of w3schools.com and has been using their w3.js library for these exercises. In the first video he shows a sort table he made. By pressing … Continue reading Simon’s Search Engine, Sort Table and Self-Made Arrows
Simon’s “painting” in Processing that he named Output.png, resembling a painting by the Dutch writer and artist Jan Wolkers.
We made a talking poster with Bare Conductive paint and touch board today: The poster on the wall next to Simon’s room: This is how we made it. … Continue reading Conductive Painting
Simon loves the conductive paint. After we finished making the Bare Conductive Voltage Village kit (previous post), he made two circuits, parallel and series, on his own without and help … Continue reading Simon draws series and parallel circuits with conductive paint
On Sunday Simon found a Bare Conductive electric paint set in his shoe. Sinterklaas knows exactly what Simon wants! Today we tried cold soldering for the first time! The project involved … Continue reading Cold soldering with Bare Conductive electric paint
During his latest Digisnacks class at the Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool in Antwerp Simon fell in love. He told me this in English (don’t mind the wrong grammar): “Mom, I fell … Continue reading Lego WeDo
An unexpected encounter in the Dutch Bergen op Zoom. Simon was so shy he went hiding nearly the whole time. Singing Sinterklaas songs with his sister Neva Neva asked Simon … Continue reading Sinterklaas
Simon was trying to make a circuit using graphite pencil as conductor but it wasn’t strong enough to make an LED burn. We actually measured the voltage with the multimeter … Continue reading Is pencil conductive?
Simon wrote a poster with electricity formulas (from memory) this morning and applied one of them (Ohm’s law) to his advanced lemon experiment. We had already tried this experiment … Continue reading Ohm’s Law Applied to Lemons
Geeks out of the box 