Simon’s whiteboard
The whiteboard always reflects Simon’s current state of mind: On the left are Simon’s notes after reading Physics Girl’s blog about quarks (the colourful stuff is foam clay): Simon showed … Continue reading Simon’s whiteboard
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Gelfond’s Constant
Simon spent two days testing out his new Texas TI-84 Plus CE-T calculator. I saw him play with Gelfond’s constant eπon the calculator: He looked up on Wikipedia that the decimal … Continue reading Gelfond’s Constant
Valence and bonds
Simon has been down with a serious flu for the past three days and yet, the moment he started feeling just a little more alive he resumed his learning: following … Continue reading Valence and bonds
Working on a proof outside
Simon saw this proof on the Numberphile channel.
Physics Experiments: The Color Wheel and Mind Blending
Inspired by Physics Girl, here come a couple crafty color wheel experiments involving what Physics Girl calls “mind blending” (it may not be the real name) – mixing color wave … Continue reading Physics Experiments: The Color Wheel and Mind Blending
Happy not back to school
Simon and Neva work on the math problem called ‘The Dollar Game’ late in the evening before the day school officially starts in Belgium and continue as soon as they … Continue reading Happy not back to school
Looking back at the vacation
Although vacation is a vague notion in our family, where days are devoted to doing favourite things 365 days a year. For Simon, that means that his days are filled … Continue reading Looking back at the vacation
The Standard Model
Simon, let’s go to the beach, let’s get your shoes on! What’s that on your foot? – Oh, I was just building the Standard Model of Elementary Particles. Simon is … Continue reading The Standard Model
Some more memories from Friesland. Binary Calculator.
A couple more images from our trip to Friesland. Simon’s binary calculator: Doing math at a restaurant where we were celebrating his friend’s birthday:
The Leaning Tower of Lire
Also known as the Book-Stacking Problem. Simon had tried to build this tower at the Fries Museum where we visited a huge Escher exhibition (to the annoyance of the museum … Continue reading The Leaning Tower of Lire
Geeks out of the box 