a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon was inspired by the Scientific Thinking course on Brilliant.org to create this pulley simulation in Algodoo. You can download Simon’s scene called “Pulleys” and play with it yourself. They … Continue reading Scientific Thinking: Pulleys
Simon says he has attempted a Higgs Field model in Processing, but got more of a Brownian Motion simulation in the end. His code on GitHub: https://github.com/simon-tiger/Brownian-Motion
Simon created a string simulation or a simulation of a traveling wave, something he used to experiment with using a slinky. Pressing the F key flattens the wave, the T … Continue reading Sound Wave Simulation
At the beginning of April, Simon started working on his COVID-19 epidemic simulation project, implementing a number of scenarios (like various degrees of hygiene, quarantine, social distancing), explaining his code … Continue reading Simon’s Corona Epidemic Simulation Code Along Project
This year’s Pi Day wasn’t as joyful as in the previous years, as it coincided with our first week in self-isolation and we were too preoccupied to make sure we … Continue reading Pi Day 2020
How many times, on average, do you have to roll a dice until you get a repeated value? I saw this probability challenge on the Mind Your Decisions channel. I … Continue reading How Many Dice Rolls Until You Get a Repeat. A Probability Experiment in p5.js
Simon’s latest independent coding project involved some biology lessons! He loves the channel Primer by Justin Helps and watched his evolution series many times, studying the rules for species’ survival … Continue reading Evolving Creatures in p5.js
We devoted the beginning of January to a goofy stop-motion project: Simon and I baked 2048 cookies! No, we didn’t bake over two thousand cookies! We only baked and decorated … Continue reading 2048 Cookies
Simon spent the morning of December 5 pondering about how to test whether a number is a triangle number. “To test if something is a triangle number: double it, ask … Continue reading Simon’s Formula to Check Triangle Numbers
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’s visualization of the notorious thee-body problem (two stars and a particle) in 1D: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/WTUoBaxgo and in 2D: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/B0pQl94pd
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
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