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On Monday Simon’s math tutor and I agreed that Simon should try some problem solving involving both math and electricity, considering his current interest. We chose Electricity and Magnetism > Current … Continue reading Kirchoff’s Current Law
From Friday’s math class (Reasoning Skills > Checking Cases on Brilliant.org):
From the Monday math practice with Brilliant.org (Basic Mathematics>Reasoning Skills>Trial and Error): This one with dividing fractions caused some difficulty:
Simon loves the book Telduivel, where a boy is taken on a mathematical adventure by a “counting devil. Many favourite themes are covered from a new angle. Here for example … Continue reading Telduivel. The counting devil.
In the video below Simon applies his knowledge of combinatorics to calculate the total number of possible colours one can create in CSS. I didn’t ask him to do this. … Continue reading Simon calculates colour probabilities. #RRGGBB
Continued with Brilliant.org today: irrelevant information word problems and even got one problem on factorials (4!):
We decided to go back to the wonderful Brilliant.org for our math practices. Did the Estimations quiz yesterday: https://brilliant.org/practice/sat-estimation/?p=1 Brilliant also has many exercises on Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science and even … Continue reading Back to Brilliant
Simon came up with this “golden infinity” concept on Monday evening and had to wait until Tuesday morning to draw it for me. He started out with an equilateral triangle … Continue reading Golden Infinity
During math class Friday, calculating the resistance in Ohms.
Simon made this chart tonight to be able to program an LED to change colours. He says he calculated all the values himself, the 255 bits being the max. Together … Continue reading RGB calculation
Cut the Möbius strip several times along its length. the best magic trick ever. Simon finds that Möbius strip is four-dimensional.
Our tireless math tutor knows how to turn boring multiplication and division training into art. On Friday he had Simon complete this beautiful circle by multiplying and dividing by prime … Continue reading Make it challenging! And make it snazzy!
Geeks out of the box 