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Simon loves challenging other people with math problems. Most often it’s his younger sister Neva who gets served a new portion of colourful riddles, but guests visiting our home also … Continue reading Teaching Mathematical Fundamentals
Sunday at the beach, Simon was reenacting the 5 doors and a cat puzzle (he had learned this puzzle from the Mind Your Decisions channel). The puzzle is about guessing … Continue reading Math on the Beach
Simon finds the explanation on Brilliant.org incomplete, so he started a discussion about it on the Brilliant community page: https://brilliant.org/discussions/thread/games-of-chance-course-marble-problem/?ref_id=1570424
An update to Simon’s new project: a series of video tutorials on sorting algorithms! See the full playlist here. Finally, parts 6 and 7 of Simon’s exciting series of video … Continue reading More Sorting Algorithms!
Simon writes (this is a copy of the question he has published in Coding Train’s Slack chat): Hi! I was unconvinced on a Brilliant puzzle: The problem (at https://brilliant.org/practice/treaps/?p=4): Me … Continue reading Unconvinced on a Brilliant puzzle
“Mom, how long would it take a supercomputer running at 10^15 additions per second to calculate the 1000th Fibonacci number?” Simon has learned this problem from the new course he … Continue reading Fun with Brilliant’s Computer Courses
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
This morning Simon was crying bitterly when he thought that the equation to calculate the resistance in a video wasn’t correct. We wrote the solution down together in detail and … Continue reading Algebra>Solving Equations>Balancing Scales
From Friday’s math class (Reasoning Skills > Checking Cases on Brilliant.org):
Continued with Brilliant.org today: irrelevant information word problems and even got one problem on factorials (4!):
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
Signed Simon up for Brilliant, a service that e-mails you quick math problems every day. It took Simon about 5 minutes to solve this sequence. Longer than myself, I must … Continue reading We started getting Brilliant e-mails!
Geeks out of the box 