a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
This has probably been proven before, but Simon likes to come up with his own proof. Here he uses proof by induction, that is a proof that proves that some … Continue reading Simon’s proof that every Fibonacci number is a sum of its neighbouring Lucas numbers divided by 5
Euler’s Identity: e^ipi = – 1
The lucky numbers are the ones that didn’t get eliminated. A lucky number is dependent on the previous one. Inspired by Numberphile.
“Mom, I’m just one step away from proving that every factorial is a highly composite number!”
Simon made a measuring tool to check the diameter of round objects: by wrapping the strip around them, he reads the Pi times the centimeters value, which basically gives him … Continue reading The Pi Strip
“What you’ll find is that the path is chaotic while the points are actually symmetric,” – Simon tells me, graphing a sequence on the beach. (On the picture below, the … Continue reading Symmetric Chaos
https://youtu.be/dYBZXFW4bsg Simon is working on a project that will involve constructing the Archimedean solids from paper pieces that he programs in Processing (Java) and prints out. In the previous video, … Continue reading Simon’s Archimedean Solids Project
The first thing Simon said this morning was: “Mom, do you know that if you keep moving, you get one quadrillionth of a second per second younger than if you … Continue reading Slowing down the time
Simon’s love letters:
Simon showed me an interesting paradox that’s difficult to wrap my mind around. If you slice a cone (at a random height), the section is a circle. The chopped-off part … Continue reading The Paradox of the Mathematical Cone
Simon is getting faster and faster with the cube. Order a speed cube for his upcoming birthday? So much for “poor fine motor skills”.
Simon doing math everywhere. And he showed me this beautiful trick of two rows adding up to equal numbers and their squares adding up to equal numbers. And the two … Continue reading Math on the Beach
Geeks out of the box 