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Inspired by Matt Parker’s video about the uniquely shaped building at 20 Fenchurch Street in London, Simon was very excited to visit this address. In the video below, made on the … Continue reading The skyscraper that set things on fire
Simon showing us catenaries made of soap, as he brings two plastic bands apart after dipping them in soapy water:
Completely on his own, without using any YouTube tutorials. (Says he applied parts of the same algorithm as he had learned for the 3 x 3 x 3 one).
Simon has started a little video series about the Irrationality of Square Roots. In Part 0, Simon talks about what square root of 2 is and in Part 1, he … Continue reading Irrationality of Square Roots
Simon saw a way to draw epitrochoids (gear rolling outside another gear) and hypotrochoids (gear rolling inside another gear) on VSauce: two equal circles rolling around each other form a … Continue reading Simon’s Spirograph
“Turning a Plane into a Sphere. Topologically it’s impossible I think” . And yesterday in bath: “Mom, these bath bombs deform topologically!”
We drew a line to mark how far the sea has pulled back between 17:30 and 21:00 o’clock. It’s amazing to observe the the Moon in action! We have read … Continue reading High and low tide
What a blissful atmosphere at Maths Jam Antwerp yesterday, full of respect, encouragement and acceptance. It’s an international monthly meet-up taking place every second to last Tuesday of the month, … Continue reading Maths Jam in May
Simon and Neva make a 3D projection of a Hypertetrahedron – one of the regular solids in 4D – using straws. Simon looks up the formula for the center of … Continue reading 4D Solids at our home!
We are watching a Netflix series as Simon comes up to me and says: Mom, give me an odd number! I go, “All right, ahh, 13!” – He starts scribbling … Continue reading Pythagorean triples as a grid
Simon’s little textbook on how to bisect and “n-sect” a line, that he wrote himself:
Geeks out of the box 