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a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com

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By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 1, 2016December 1, 2016

CSS

In this video Simon explains indenting/ use of spaces in CSS:   And here he practices changing fonts in CSS on the w3schools.com website:  

Categories: Coding, CSS, html, UncategorizedTags: CSS, html
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 1, 2016December 1, 2016

Sound Wave in Processing

Simon had a lot of fun making a sound wave (or a Japanese sea of milk?) in Processing 3 yesterday, something he learned from a tutorial on the Processing website. Processing … Continue reading Sound Wave in Processing

Categories: Coding, UncategorizedTags: Processing
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on November 15, 2016November 15, 2016

Solving Equations continued

From Yesterday’s math class. Simon continued with the equations and managed to complete four quizzes on Brilliant.org within one hour. He neglects writing things down though, trying to solve everything … Continue reading Solving Equations continued

Categories: Murderous Maths, UncategorizedTags: Brilliant, equations, math
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on November 10, 2016November 10, 2016

Electronic glove

Categories: Crafty, Electricity, Electronics, LittleBits, UncategorizedTags: Electricity, Electronics, LittleBits
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on November 10, 2016November 10, 2016

Mom, I like taking things apart now!

It was a LittleBits servo motor and an old laptop this time.

Categories: Electronics, Milestones, UncategorizedTags: Electronics
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on November 10, 2016November 10, 2016

Absolutely beautiful 

Look Mom, Simon said today, in math there is something called the absolute value. What is the absolute value of -4,7? It’s 4,7! (I think he learned it from his … Continue reading Absolutely beautiful 

Categories: JavaScript, Milestones, Murderous Maths, UncategorizedTags: JavaScript, math
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on November 4, 2016November 4, 2016

Joules per second 

The new Adventures in Science video episode by SparkFun is out! This time on electric power.

Categories: Electricity, Physics, UncategorizedTags: Electricity, Physics
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on November 2, 2016November 2, 2016

Telduivel. The counting devil.

Simon loves the book Telduivel, where a boy is taken on a mathematical adventure by a “counting devil. Many favourite themes are covered from a new angle. Here for example … Continue reading Telduivel. The counting devil.

Categories: Murderous Maths, UncategorizedTags: math, Telduivel
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 29, 2016October 29, 2016

Makey Makey

This is Simon on his way to the Digisnacks class yesterday expecting to get his hands on the Makey Makey. Was a little disappointed after class: didn’t get to do … Continue reading Makey Makey

Categories: Crafty, Electricity, Electronics, Experiments, Group, UncategorizedTags: groep, Makey Makey
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 26, 2016October 26, 2016

Back to Brilliant

We decided to go back to the wonderful Brilliant.org for our math practices. Did the Estimations quiz yesterday: https://brilliant.org/practice/sat-estimation/?p=1 Brilliant also has many exercises on Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science and even … Continue reading Back to Brilliant

Categories: Murderous Maths, UncategorizedTags: Brilliant, math
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 23, 2016

Today’s self written code

Simon has been scrutinizing yet another platform, Particle (producing the Electron, Photon and Core microcomputers https://docs.particle.io/guide/getting-started/intro/photon/ ) and wrote this code online at https://build.particle.io/build/new Unfortunately, he doesn’t have any of their devices to … Continue reading Today’s self written code

Categories: Arduino, Coding, UncategorizedTags: Arduino, Coding
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 19, 2016

Simon playing Borodin

From Girls Chorus (Prince Igor)

Categories: Milestones, Piano, UncategorizedTags: Borodin, Music, Piano

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