a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Three boxes with fruit, all the three labels are misplaced. What is the minimum number of times one will have to sample a random piece of fruit from one of … Continue reading Fun crafty puzzles Simon did with Neva
Link to Simon’s code: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/UMuLxaHJ
Simon learned this from an alternating series visualization by Think Twice.
Simon learned this from a visual mathematics video by Think Twice.
I want to mess with the Periodic Table to see what arrangements I can put it in. This is called the Wide Arrangement. There are aso a few other arrangements, … Continue reading Messing with the Periodic table
Simon had a wonderful time at MathsJam Antwerp again. One of the problems was something he was already familiar with – the puzzle about hanging a painting using two pegs … Continue reading MathsJam Antwerp 18 December 2019
This has been one of Simon’s most ambitious (successful) projects so far and a beautiful grand finale of 2019, also marking his channel reaching 1K subscribers. The project – approximating … Continue reading Approximating pi and e with Randomness
Simon saw a prototype of this Galton Board in a video about maths toys (it works similarly to a sand timer in a see-through container). He created his digital simulation … Continue reading Galton Board in p5.js
Inspired by the Card Flipping Proof by Numberphile, Simon created his own version of this proof. He made a solitaire game and proved why it would be impossible to solve … Continue reading Proof Visualization. Warning: Mind-boggling!
It’s Sinterklaas season in the Dutch-speaking world and, of course, as we have started baking the traditional spiced cookies called kruidnoten (“gingerbread buttons”) Simon didn’t want to miss an opportunity … Continue reading Sinterklaas math game with “gingerbread buttons”
Simon working on a simplified version of a search engine, including just a few documents, and performing calculations to determine how many searches one should do to make creating an … Continue reading Simon crafting a search engine with sticky notes
Geeks out of the box 