a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon has been pondering a lot about various ways to visualize or prove the quadratic formula. He eventually came up with a 4-meter-long quiz sheet, slowly revealing the logic behind … Continue reading The Grand Quadratic Formula Quiz!
If you’re interested in why #covid-19 tracing apps are important and the most privacy-friendly way to implement them, please read this interactive essay by Nicky Case and play with the colorful … Continue reading Simon’s remix of one of Nicky Case’s playable essays
Simon says he saw this question on a thumbnail of a recommended video and got curious to solve this. He built a beautiful colored graph to visualize the problem in … Continue reading Can a rectangle have the same perimeter and area?
Every polygon can be triangulated into exactly n-2 triangles. So you’ve got the triangulation theorem and the totally opposite theorem in the math universe, Girard’s theorem (the formula for the … Continue reading Dissecting Polygons
Last Tuesday, May 19, was somewhat a historic day as Simon created his first Discord bot (actually, two bots: one that does polls and count-downs and another programmable one that … Continue reading Simon made a discord bot
Simon has recreated the CodingGame.com’s Spring Challenge 2020 PacMan game in p5.js to be able to work on the AI versions after the spring challenge has finished. Link to Simon’s … Continue reading Spring Challenge 2020 PacMan in p5.js
Sitting on our sunny balcony, Simon wrote down the chemical formula for photosynthesis and “converted” it onto a mathematical equation.
Following up on his Bézier Curve in p5.js project from a couple months ago, Simon created a Bézier Editor: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/4Dj5iq0oh
Simon returned to his project on the three body problem that he was busy with in January this year. This time, he added traces to the bodies so that their … Continue reading The Three-Body Problem in p5.JS Continued
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