a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon came up with what he calls a conjecture about the minimum number of equilateral triangles that fit into a larger equilateral triangle. He has discovered that for equilateral triangles … Continue reading Simon’s Triangles Conjecture
More Numberphile-inspired stuff! Simon has been studying Mersenne Primes (2^n – 1) and their relation to perfect numbers via the Numberphile channel and heard Matt Parker say no one has proved … Continue reading More Numberphile-inspired stuff!
Now this was pretty amazing! Simon’s new own code, that he so nonchalantly wrote while “having a break” from practicing recursive functions, generates “triangular numbers”. A triangular number or triangle number … Continue reading Triangle Numbers. Simon’s own code
Yesterday Simon and I were doing some primary school math (Dutch 6th grade, Belgian 4th grade, on average two grades above Simon’s biological age). It’s something we regularly do to … Continue reading Math vs Math
Math lesson Wednesday. Went on with the Linear equations word problems Started the Linear equations with unknown coefficients
It’s been great watching Simon turn a word problem into an equation today. He was busy with “Sums of consecutive integers” (Practice finding the nth number in a sequence of … Continue reading Sums of consecutive integers
Simon likes to compile sequences in bath. This one was so beautiful I asked him to write it down The answer:
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 