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By Geeks out of the Box October 9, 2020

Base 3/2

Simon is simply mesmerized by the founder of the Global Math Project James Tanton. He has watched countless tutorials by Tanton and frequents Tanton’s Exploding Dots website that features a … Continue reading Base 3/2

By Geeks out of the Box July 9, 2018October 15, 2018

Math on the Beach

Simon doing math everywhere. And he showed me this beautiful trick of two rows adding up to equal numbers and their squares adding up to equal numbers. And the two … Continue reading Math on the Beach

By Geeks out of the Box December 20, 2016December 20, 2016

Sums of consecutive integers

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

By Geeks out of the Box June 2, 2016June 3, 2016

We started getting Brilliant e-mails!

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!