Also the simple stuff
Simon has been doing some “simpler” primary school material to make sure he has done that too. Stuff like long division: And soms with fractions from the Grote Rekenboek: Too … Continue reading Also the simple stuff
Category: Murderous Maths
Logic Gates
Simon has been busy with the logic gates. Here he explains the inverter in English: Yesterday he and his math tutor devoted one lesson to the same topic and made … Continue reading Logic Gates
Some more vacation “art”
Pascal’s triangle (used as an aide in combinatorics) here drawn by Simon to help calculate dice and coin combinations The insides of the Earth and its atmosphere
Simon’s elegant sequence
Simon likes to compile sequences in bath. This one was so beautiful I asked him to write it down The answer:
Simon’s Lectures
This is what Simon does quite a lot lately – giving prolonged math “lectures” to an imaginable audience or rather, as he confessed, to himself. He stares into the empty … Continue reading Simon’s Lectures
Right and wrong on the tennis court
– That was slightly wrong direction, Simon! – yells the tennis coach as Simon fails to hit the ball right for the tenth time. – That was 90 degrees wrong. … Continue reading Right and wrong on the tennis court
Math touching programming
During his biweekly math lesson: Mom, we are converting into binary numbers! The same night Simon said to me: “Mom, you know how we have once talked about programming lessons?” … Continue reading Math touching programming
Square roots
Last night I asked Simon if he could pick the correct answer out of three: what is the square root of 9 to the power of 16? It took Simon … Continue reading Square roots
We started getting Brilliant e-mails!
Signed Simon up for Brilliant, a service that e-mails you quick math problems every day. It took Simon about 5 minutes to solve this sequence. Longer than myself, I must … Continue reading We started getting Brilliant e-mails!
Colours are Math Too
The last couple of days have been dominated by the colours theme, that eventually ended up expressed in fractions (of how to mix the primary colours as in paints or … Continue reading Colours are Math Too
This is how many 2D shapes a 3D shape corner, a vertice or this amount of degrees has.
This entry can be viewed as an extensive English practice: Simon wrote both the title and the entry (I have corrected one sentence) and recorded an English-language video (you’ll notice … Continue reading This is how many 2D shapes a 3D shape corner, a vertice or this amount of degrees has.
Got 5 extra minutes until piano lesson starts
A table of “2 to the power of”, starting with to the power of -3
Geeks out of the box 