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
Simon keeps thoroughly enjoying Brilliant’s approach to intelligence and learning (even though he sometimes dislikes the way the daily challenges are formulated). His latest stats: From the courses he has … Continue reading Simon solving Brilliant’s daily challenges
For over a month, Simon has been fascinated by Presh Talwalkar’s channel Mind Your Decisions. The channel is full of short videos on famous math problems, logic riddles, proofs and … Continue reading Mind Your Decisions
Simon learned this from an alternating series visualization by Think Twice.
Simon saw this thumbnail (by the channel Mind Your Decisions) among the YouTube recommended videos and sat down to solve it, without watching the video, so that he doesn’t see … Continue reading The Ladder Problem
Simon has come up with an equation to solve the Too many Twos, the puzzle mode of the Add ‘Em Up game: x is the number of twos I used … Continue reading Too Many Twos Solution Proof
Simon bored at a university lecture 🙂
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
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!
Today, Simon returned to a problem he first encountered at a MathsJam in summer: “Pick random numbers between 0 and 1, until the sum exceeds 1. What is the expected … Continue reading MathsJam Antwerp 20 November 2019. A Blast and a Responsibility.
In an earlier post, I have mentioned that for many games he programs Simon got his inspiration from the site Maths Is Fun. Perhaps I should add that at our … Continue reading More Puzzles from Maths Is Fun
Geeks out of the box 