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STEM Hacks & Cogniscient
Personal blog · leosstemhacks.wordpress.commathscience
STEM Hacks & Cogniscient is a personal blog at leosstemhacks.wordpress.com about math and science. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as examples of a parent teaching young children STEM and programming, including math problems for a 3rd grader, a Python-in-Minecraft lesson for an 8-year-old, and posts about Beast Academy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This site is a combination of some of the fun math and science stuff that I do with my son. Here's my personal web site. (This is my second blog. I kept my first one, the Diary of an Insane Cell Mechanic, before "blogging" was even a word!)
Most-linked posts?
- NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-29
What Hacker News says?
There are many many wonderful math books, and many many wonderful math resources on youtube. (As well as, of course, many many terrible ones!) I second AOPS! They have a fantastic series for younger kids called "Beast Academy" ( https://beastacademy.com ), and their challenge problem sets are fantastic! The same blog has a couple of other posts about them: https://leosstemhacks.wordpress.com/2019/11/06/the-three-bes…
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on “NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018)”Submitted NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018) as a story · 217 points
HN discussion> Somehow I doubt "Leo" actually understands anything about NP-completeness The parent is a Stanford professor that studies scientific reasoning. I would assume he is a good judge of what his kid understands. This article was 4 years into a series about teaching his child STEM concepts. https://leosstemhacks.wordpress.com/about/
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on “NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018)”Submitted English speakers should learn math instead of a second language as a story · 174 points
HN discussionThis isn't a lispy syntax, but it is teaching a young kid ... if young = 8y.o.: https://leosstemhacks.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/pythoncraft-c... (lots of other examples in this blog) I agree that a lisp would be way better than either the internal command block language, or the ugly python hack.
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on “Ask HN: Anyone teaching young children programming through Minecraft?”Submitted NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Right-Sizing Minecraft (A Whirlwind Exercise in Scientific Notation) as a story · 1 points
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