a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon spent hours calculating – something he’s not particularly fond of if it were simple/ pointless sums, the way schoolkids work. His was not pointless! He did it with the … Continue reading Numbers as products of primes (a useful calculation practice). And the general beauty of primes.
What shape can roll well, other than a circle (wheel)? Two circles, attached together according to a formula involving a square root of two! Simon made these “wobbly circles” inspired … Continue reading Wobbly Circles and the Center of Mass
Simon came up with a function that for bigger inputs approaches Pi. He has seen that the result of a function for infinity ∞ f(infinity) = Pi/4 in a Numberphile … Continue reading Simon’s Function for Pi
Based on the Numberphile video about the Kolakoski Sequence.
Inspired by a Numberphile video, where Simon learned the technique to express the Fibonacci sequence in musical notes.
Inspired by yet another Numberphile video, Simon is explaining why it’s impossible to turn a circle into a square with the same area using only the tools that the ancient … Continue reading How to Square a Circle
Inspired by the 3Blue1Brown video “All possible Pythagorean Triples visualized”. Simon has recently learned about different ways to find Pythagorean Triples, using different formulas (involving complex numbers and not). His … Continue reading Pythagorean Triples
His sister an grandma visiting from snowy Russia making paper snowflakes inspired Simon… Right is Simon’s sister’s snowflake, left is Simon’s:
Simon built this Snakes and Ladders game on January 27 based on Daniel Shiffman’s live stream (from January 26), adding some extra features of his own. The game is online … Continue reading Snakes and Ladders in p5.js
Programmed a random number generator to hep him with a card trick. Inspired by Numberphile:
Simon came up with an idea to make a puzzle of “squared squares”, a concept he learned via Numberphile. One square of 112 by 112 cm (the smallest possible of … Continue reading Squared Square Puzzle
Geeks out of the box 