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@HighlandLawyer @niels Already done it! We built a very basic transistor amp, and that lead from analog to digital electronics, and booleans, logic gates, Minecraft and number bases / binary logic.
(Now that I mention all the stuff we've covered since "can you chat to this student about science, but from the perspective of something they like, such as electric guitars", it does seem to have snowballed a little.)
@niels Fractal stuff is interesting...
This is for a student who has kind of rejected maths at high school level, I get the impression they think it's just sums and they're not very good at sums. So no huge maths specific skills, but still plenty of curiosity and smarts.
@nichni Complex stuff probably requires skills that aren't available (I'm trying to at least encourage maths as a subject where it's been rejected cos, my words, "maths is just sums and is boring"). Vectors is interesting, we've done some wave interference via electric guitar science stuff, which is how this all got started.
Chat with a (~13yr old) student on Friday that I want to turn to "interesting maths", rather than the classes they don't like. Thinking about infinity...Hilbert's Hotel and countable v uncountable (natural v integers v real etc).
Any ideas on that theme for that age?
