a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon has made it into the #MegaFavNumbers playlist, organized by Cambridge’s James Grime for mathematicians on YouTube. Nearly 250 mathematicians (including StandUpMaths and 3Blue1Brown) have pitched in with videos about … Continue reading #MegaFavNumbers
We also visited another old favorite, the beach in Noordwijk. By the way, that’s where ESA is located, toon (they’ve got an awesome space museum we used to frequent when … Continue reading Math at the beach
Simon has set his first steps towards creating a 3D renderer. What’s a 3D renderer? 3D rendering is a process of converting 3D models into 2D images on a computer. … Continue reading Ray Marching
This is Simon’s contribution to #blacklivesmatter How Can Math Help Resolve Racial Segregation? This video and coding project is based on Segregation Solitaire by Thomas Schelling, an American mathematician and … Continue reading How Can Math Help Resolve Racial Segregation?
Simon created a physics engine in Python with Turtle. He used Verlet integration (French pronunciation: [vɛʁˈlɛ]), a numerical method for integrating Newton’s equations of motion in calculating trajectories of particles in molecular … Continue reading Physics Engine using Verlet Integration
Simon has been pondering a lot about various ways to visualize or prove the quadratic formula. He eventually came up with a 4-meter-long quiz sheet, slowly revealing the logic behind … Continue reading The Grand Quadratic Formula Quiz!
If you’re interested in why #covid-19 tracing apps are important and the most privacy-friendly way to implement them, please read this interactive essay by Nicky Case and play with the colorful … Continue reading Simon’s remix of one of Nicky Case’s playable essays
Simon was inspired by the Scientific Thinking course on Brilliant.org to create this pulley simulation in Algodoo. You can download Simon’s scene called “Pulleys” and play with it yourself. They … Continue reading Scientific Thinking: Pulleys
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.
This is what I got from the kids yesterday as my Mother’s Day present. Simon has taught Neva to make little animations in Python. This is another little video of … Continue reading Making small animations with Python turtle
Simon: “The direct formula for the position of a pendulum is not what you might think”. Simon’s code for spring and graph: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/mWp6gQLxz Simon’s code for pendulum with directed fields: … Continue reading Science on the Balcony: Position of a Pendulum
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