a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Thanks to the lock-down, Simon’s got new friends. For a little over a month now, he has been part of exciting daily discussions, challenging coding sessions and just playing together … Continue reading New Friends. New Horizons.
A pentagonal number extends the concept of triangular and square numbers, but the patterns involved in the construction of pentagonal numbers are not rotationally symmetrical. The nth pentagonal number pn is the number of distinct dots in … Continue reading The Formula for Pentagonal Numbers
Pondering over the future, I told the kids the universal basic income and Doughnut Economics should be the next step. Simon game me an improvised lecture on doughnut topology. Well, … Continue reading Doughnut Education
On March 17, Simon started a series of math and coding projects about COVID-19. The first projects he called Corona Math: Why Social Isolation? This is part I of my … Continue reading Corona Math
Simon learned this technique from a wonderful channel he has recently discovered called CodeParade. He mainly follows this channel for its machine learning projects, but this cool little trick on … Continue reading Beautiful fractals, this time not programmed but drawn by hand in an image editor
Sometimes, Simon loves a trick or a puzzle so much he writes it down several times over the course of a couple of days. he also really enjoys teaching this … Continue reading Some more math tricks
After Simon read up on spherical geometry on Brilliant.org, he and Neva crafted some pretty colourful half-spheres. How’s that as an alternative to Easter eggs? Simon has also discovered a … Continue reading Spherical Geometry
Play Simon’s game: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/present/1pGeJY7c Code: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/1pGeJY7c Simon learned this game on Brilliant.org at https://brilliant.org/practice/winning-moves/?chapter=competitive-games (Warning: this link will only work if you have a Premium Subscription to Brilliant). Brilliant describes … Continue reading Ancient Chinese Game Luk Tsut K’i Game in p5.js
Code: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/nPNGc_1g Interactive project online: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/present/nPNGc_1g
Simon is doing an increasing load of Brilliant’s daily challenges. Some more recent challenges:
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
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