a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon loves his new Science Journal app he recently found online and downloaded on my Android. The app allows him to investigate movement (by using accelerometers), measure ambient light and sound … Continue reading Science Journal app
Mom, I’m going to build a heat generator!
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
Continued with Brilliant.org today: irrelevant information word problems and even got one problem on factorials (4!):
It’s late in the evening. While drinking his bedtime tea Simon is teaching his little sister to measure the voltage of various batteries. And he also knows his Ohm’s Law … Continue reading Always happy to teach
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
I saw Simon looking at all the ports on the back of the desktop processor this afternoon and asked him if he wanted to take a peep inside. He was … Continue reading Our desktop’s guts
Simon told me today he invented a new electronics kit that would allow him to “make” any misical instrument he wanted. Outside at the playground he indulged in listing all … Continue reading Simon’s invention idea
Simon changed the default blink LED code to make the LED double blink (cut down on the delay time):
Today Simon tried to make a turn table. But it didn’t turn out exactly the way he wanted it, because various modules from his LittleBits Synth Kit are acting up. … Continue reading Turn Table
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
On Thursday and Friday Simon started a new course on Code Academy, this time in Java Script! The first tasks have been quite interesting. I especially likes the one about moon … Continue reading Code Academy JavaScript Courses
Geeks out of the box 