a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Caught Simon’s reaction to Wednesday’s breaking news on video: the first-ever image of a black hole published, made by the Event Horizon Telescope project team. Simon explains why, if you … Continue reading Black Hole Breakthrough
Simon came up to me last nigh saying he didn’t understand what “they mean with God is with me” and showed the following funny conversation going on in the comments … Continue reading Chat experiences
“Mom, how long would it take a supercomputer running at 10^15 additions per second to calculate the 1000th Fibonacci number?” Simon has learned this problem from the new course he … Continue reading Fun with Brilliant’s Computer Courses
Simon has been completely carried away by Wolfram Mathematica. He keeps starting new projects, just to try something out. After working on his Knot Theory book for days, and making … Continue reading Domain Coloring with Complex Functions in Wolfram Mathematica
In this video, Simon (a 9 year old mathematician and programmer) shares his views on what absolutely needs to change in the educational system and why self-directed learning works better … Continue reading What’s Wrong with Traditional School?
Just like last year, Pi Day activities are going to spill over to the next few days, I’m sure. Simon’s not yet done working on a Pi piano composition and … Continue reading Happy Pi Day 2019!
Simon writing the standard model from memory, physicsing himself to sleep.
Just a typical evening scene from our home. Simon practicing Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel, Neva improvising a dance. Below is another recording of Simon playing the whole piece … Continue reading Home Concerts: Pachelbel
This is a remake of a Veritasium video, Simon and Neva attempt to suck up a 6 meter long (6mm thick) straw.
An unbelievable experience Friday night, as we were on an Antwerp rooftop prepping to observe Uranus and Orion nebula through a telescope, Simon and I (and one more person next … Continue reading A Guest from Space
Simon working on his proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic (he got stuck and then searched for existing proofs online).
Simon had his first public performance in front of a large audience last Saturday (February 9, 2019): he spoke about his Times Tables Visualization project at the Processing Community Day … Continue reading Simon speaking at the Processing Community Day in Amsterdam
Geeks out of the box 