a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
The fertility formula, to predict the population the following year: A fake number (called “Wau”) to imagine infinity (via Numberphile): Drawing a square root of 5 (via James Grime): Pebbling … Continue reading A new tour of Simon’s sketch book
Simon’s little textbook on how to bisect and “n-sect” a line, that he wrote himself:
This is a Japanese version of the famous River Crossings Puzzle that Simon learned from the Scam School channel (yes, our little programming and math nerd actually watches Scam School, … Continue reading River Crossings Puzzle
Learned from Numberphile.
Simon shows how to draw a segment that is Phi times longer than a unit segment. He learned from a video by James Grime how to draw the square root … Continue reading How to draw the Golden Ratio (Phi)
With grandma visiting
Ramanujan’s Taxicab Numbers are the smallest numbers that can be written as a sum of two numbers to the power of n in two different ways. We only know such … Continue reading Ramanujan’s Taxicab Numbers
Simon has invented this card trick using a random field of cards and allowing him to predict nearly the whole path through the field. You can play along as a … Continue reading Random Field Card Trick
Simon trying to develop the remainder theorem further: Imperial measurements system: Geometric series: Primes: Venn Diagram: Clock-face Puzzle (guessing a number on the clock face after the player spells several … Continue reading Another glimpse of Simon’s latest notes
Geeks out of the box 