a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon’s really proud of himself for being helpful during The Coding Train’s tutorial recording sessions. He hopes to have converted Dan Shiffman to approach trigonometry as something about circles, not … Continue reading Trig is About Circles
Simon saw this thumbnail (by the channel Mind Your Decisions) among the YouTube recommended videos and sat down to solve it, without watching the video, so that he doesn’t see … Continue reading The Ladder Problem
Simon had his first public performance in front of a large audience last Saturday (February 9, 2019): he spoke about his Times Tables Visualization project at the Processing Community Day … Continue reading Simon speaking at the Processing Community Day in Amsterdam
To solve the problem, Simon chooses not to look up what the derivative of a tangent is but work everything out from scratch. He generally doesn’t like rote learning but … Continue reading Simon differentiating 3tan(2x)
This is a behind the scenes video (Simon wasn’t even aware of me filming at first, but he always talks to himself when working out a proof, so that helps). … Continue reading Behind the scenes
Simon came up with a tool (a circle where you install a pencil) to draw curved lines. He explains how the curved line actually draws the absolute value of the … Continue reading Simon’s Sine Wave Tool
Simon was reading about math functions on Wikipedia and came up with an idea to create an interactive math functions editor in JavaScript that would visualize (i.e. show the graphs … Continue reading Interactive Math Functions
Simon playing around with sine, cosine and radii in Grapher:
A set of awesome Codea tutorials that Simon recorded for those who are just starting to program in Codea. Simon ported examples from Processing (java) into Codea (Lua): In the … Continue reading Simon’s Codea Tutorials and the Arc-Tangent
Simon returned to the Solar System in Processing Coding Challenge by Daniel Shiffman – something he tried before and got stuck. He has now successfully completed both the 2D and … Continue reading Solar System in Processing Coding Challenge
Simon talks about his changes to Daniel Shiffman’s Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge: He has rewritten the code in an object oriented manner. Later he also turned the sphere into an … Continue reading Simon’s changes to Daniel Shiffman’s Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge
Heard Simon give his Russian grandparents a lecture in the playroom, via FaceTime. When I came in, this is what I saw on the whiteboard. Simon proudly said he figured … Continue reading Teaching SOHCAHTOA to Grandmom in Russian
Geeks out of the box 