A few years ago, Baidu started bidding for rankings. Searching was very difficult at first, and most of the web pages were filled with advertisements for various training institutions.
Lin Chaoxi patiently scanned the entries of "Olympiad Mathematics Training Class", "Senior Tutors at Sanwei University", and "Guidance by Teachers from the Department of Mathematics at Yongchuan University". It took her some time to understand why her question to Jie Ran, "Sanwei University is obviously better at mathematics, but the national training team is at Yongchuan University", was stupid. The answer is very simple: it's tradition.
The answer is simple, which makes it even more strange that Xie Ran warned her that "the academic world is complicated."
She flipped through two more pages and found that she couldn't find any more useful information.
She gave up the precise search and decided to be more vague. Inspired by Lu Zhihao, she directly clicked on "News Search" and entered the word "Olympiad Mathematics" in the search box.
With a click of the mouse, the web page refreshes instantly, and the titles flow down like water.
The news at the top is about the math genius in Lake Province.
He won the first place in the Jin Cup Competition in the sixth grade of elementary school, won the first prize in the junior high school mathematics league three times in junior high school, and won the national first prize three times in high school. He participated in the last International Mathematical Olympiad and has been admitted to Yongchuan University in advance. He is now in the national training team and is striving for his first Olympiad gold medal in his life.
If the classmate's name wasn't the same as Pei Zhi's, Lin Chaoxi would have thought it was Pei Zhi's resume.
Her first reaction was simple: the country has a large population base and there are really many talented young people. After that, she noticed the last sentence of the article: The first gold medal, why?
Thinking of this, she naturally began to search for the national team's performance in the Mathematical Olympiad in recent years.
When the new page opened, Lin Chaoxi learned that the national team won the runner-up in the International Mathematical Olympiad last year, so the next news related to the Olympiad was a reflection on mathematics education.
After the high school students only won the runner-up place once, the news media began to reflect that Olympiad education could not cultivate real mathematicians. They also criticized the social phenomenon of parents desperately sending their children to Olympiad cram schools and called for a cooling down of Olympiad training.
At that time, there was a wave of news flying around, but Zhong Lin Chaoxi never paid attention to it. But now, as soon as she saw the news, she actually felt very uncomfortable.
After all, Lao Lin was running a math cram school, and no matter which world she was in, she had participated in the Mathematical Olympiad since she was a child. Now that public opinion directly accused her of being useless in the Mathematical Olympiad education she had received since she was a child, she really found it difficult to accept.
But no matter how uncomfortable she is, if you look closely, she seems to be able to accept some of the viewpoints in it, for example: too many parents force their children to learn Olympiad mathematics in order to get extra points for admission to college, while neglecting to cultivate their children's mathematical foundation.
However, Lin Chaoxi found it difficult to accept the view that "Olympiad mathematics is useless for most students". After all, she was not a genius, and it was only with the guidance of Mr. Lin that she gradually embarked on the road of mathematics competition.
Many news reports have quoted an article from a few years ago that said that interest and love for mathematics should come naturally.
Euler taught himself algebra at the age of 9, and Gauss could quickly calculate the sum of 1 to 100 at the age of 10. Students who are interested in mathematics and have great talent will naturally embark on the path of mathematical research. It is extremely wrong to force children to attend Olympiad classes, use Olympiad competition results to measure children's mathematical ability, and link it with academic advancement.
Most students who are not interested in mathematics only need to master the mathematics knowledge learned in class and there is no need for them to learn Olympiad mathematics.
She looked carefully and found that it was from an interview transcript, and the interviewee was "Yongchuan University: Feng Deming".
Xie Ran mentioned before that two great masters in the domestic mathematics community no longer accept students. One is Professor Zeng of Sanwei University, and the other is Professor Feng of Yongchuan University.
Professor Zeng Qingran's research falls into the category of "knowing every word but not knowing how to put them together". Lin Chaoxi thought with shame that if he was not Pei Zhi's mentor, she might not know who he was.
Professor Feng is actually more famous than Professor Zeng. After all, he has proved a world-renowned mathematical conjecture and is also in charge of the Mathematics Research Institute of Yongchuan University, bringing the mathematics department of this liberal arts-oriented university to a leading position in the country...
Thinking of this, Lin Chaoxi suddenly shuddered, and the details buried deep in his memory emerged.
Yongchuan University is very strong in liberal arts. When she was filling out her college entrance examination application, she wanted to apply for the Department of Psychology at Yongchuan University, but Lao Lin slightly objected and suggested that she go to Sanwei University.
She did not remember Lao Lin's objection at the time, but the idea of going to Sanwei University and becoming a Peizhi alumnus was tempting enough for her, and she gave up Yongchuan University without hesitation.
Now that I think about it, she made such casual decisions on which university to attend and what to study, which shows how irresponsible she was.
But why would Lao Lin, who had always been unwilling to interfere with her decisions, secretly oppose her going to Yongchuan University?
Outside the window was a quiet winter night on campus. In the distance, there was a circle of dim street lights on the playground, and the rest of the campus was in darkness. Although there was warm air conditioning in the computer room, Lin Chaoxi felt a little chilly.
She knew she was making a serious logical error.
"Professor Feng's name" was forcibly searched out by her when searching for "Olympiad Mathematics". "Yongchuan University" is a very good school. It is ridiculous that she insisted on including "Lao Lin" in the search just because of the order in which these keywords appeared.
Lin Chaoxi calmed down a little. The light from the old-fashioned screen in the computer room was dazzling, but she stared at the search box without blinking.
After a while, she opened the keyboard a little, and with stiff fingers, she typed the three words "Feng Deming", pressed the space bar, and prepared to enter the second name...
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Yongchuan Normal University, National Junior High School Mathematics Competition, Paper Reading Group.
Even as dusk fell, the reading office was still brightly lit.
The reading work of mathematics competitions is far more complicated than most people imagine. Students’ problem-solving methods are all kinds of strange, which require teachers’ careful evaluation.
This job doesn't pay much and is boring most of the time, but Gao Yuan still enjoys reading the students' answers.
During a break from work, he and William Chang stood on the balcony outside the office to smoke. The north wind was blowing, and the cigarette burned out faster than usual, but William Chang held the filter tightly, as if he didn't feel anything.
"I wonder what the results will be like this year?" After smoking a whole cigarette, William Chang said this at last.
This sentence has no subject, but Gao Yuan knows clearly that Chang Shuping is not concerned about the students in Sanwei University who they have given a military warrant to achieve good results, but rather the high school students in Yongchuan University who have little to do with them but are burdened with too many social expectations.
Two days ago, there was a piece of news from Yongchuan University that various ideas were clashing within the national training team and the training was a bit chaotic.
The old man who said that most students don't need to learn Mathematical Olympiad is obsessed with academics and doesn't care about the little things of the training team. But his words are still influential, including "learning naturally" and "don't force children to learn mathematics for the Mathematical Olympiad", which have made some of the competition training methods they used to be accustomed to questioned.
Although teaching work is still going on as normal, to use a line from a movie, "people's morale is a little scattered," so Zhang is worried about the performance of the national team next year.
Gao Yuan bit his lip and said, "You are worrying for nothing. Let's get our team in shape first. Don't let us be wiped out in the winter camp in December this year. If we both 'resign' and 'no longer work in math education', it will not look good at all."
"No." William Chang was very determined.
"Just based on those few young geniuses you like?" Gao Yuan laughed, "Old Zhang, is it true that you are just a person of your nature?"
"Temperament?"
"Didn't you always say that 'the training camp is to eliminate those students with poor abilities' and 'to focus on cultivating a very small number of top students'?" Gao Yuan said half-jokingly, "In fact, you are the direct disciple of Master Feng, right?"
After all, deep down you all believe that ordinary students don't need to undergo Olympiad training, and geniuses will develop naturally.
“I used to feel that way, but not anymore.”
Gao Yuan smiled and said, "You have changed. Are you in love?"
"Don't talk like Lin Zhaosheng."
As the head coach of the Yongchuan Province Mathematics Training Team, if Gao Yuanguo could see Lin Chaoxi's search process with his own eyes, he would definitely pull Lin Chaoxi aside and say, "The little girl is so sharp in analyzing problems. She is worthy of being your father's daughter."
The news Lin Chaoxi found was very accurate. He and Lao Zhang were indeed facing great social and personal psychological pressure.
He has read all the criticisms on the Internet over and over again, but teachers and students have different starting points for looking at the problem.
Lin Chaoxi thought that she was not a genius and did not have a natural love and interest in mathematics.
For Gao Yuan, it was only after he heard the speeches of those children who had been tortured by the Mathematical Olympiad and suffered from lifelong psychological trauma that he realized that the cause for which he had worked so hard for many years had actually caused pain to so many children.
When the national team lost the team gold medal last year, his thinking was shaken. Later, he thought it was nothing when only one person from his provincial team made the 60-person list of the national Mathematical Olympiad training team.
It was not until William Chang found him that he clearly stated that "intensive training must not be relaxed".
He also asked Chang Shuping at the time, "If Olympiad mathematics makes children so painful, why do we still insist on letting them learn it?"
The person who answered this question was another person on the phone.
"Teacher Gao, what's wrong? Do you also think that mathematics is a game for a very small number of geniuses?" Someone asked him with a smile on the phone.
He said something at the time, something like: "Studying is so tiring, so just forget it."
The other end replied directly: "In this world, the only things that don't make you tired are eating, sleeping, and farting."
He was offended at the time, but after the call was disconnected, he sat in his office for a night before he realized what the short rhetorical question was asking.
——Geniuses do not need guidance, they will naturally follow the path they love. And those children who are not geniuses are not qualified to learn Mathematical Olympiad to cultivate their interest, and it is impossible for them to grow up to be able to compare with geniuses through hard study and continuous training?
And the person who asked this question actually answered it in the same way.
Regardless of their talents, as long as they want to give it a try, they are clearly qualified. As teachers, all they have to do is to help the children try to move forward a little bit, and that's all.
For this reason, there is a joint training course for junior high and high school students at Sanmi University. After all, doing anything in this world except eating, sleeping and farting is tiring, so if you want to learn mathematics well, it will obviously be more tiring.
Gao Yuan rubbed his face and said, "Where did you find a weirdo like Lin Zhaosheng? He has so much knowledge, but why doesn't he want to come to the training team for class?"
Zhang Shuping's expression darkened: "I looked at his file. It's okay if he doesn't come."
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In the computer room, when Lin Chaoxi pressed the Enter key, someone suddenly patted her on the shoulder.
"I caught you!"
Lin Chaoxi subconsciously turned the page and turned back, only to see Lu Zhihao.
With his hand on his heart, Lin Chaoxi knew that her face must look very ugly.
"What are you looking at?" Lu Zhihao asked.
"I won't tell you." Lin Zhaoxi caught a glimpse of Pei Zhi at the door of the computer room. "Aren't you running?"
"I saw you sneaking away, so I came to catch you and run with you."
"That's fine." Lin Zhaoxi pretended to turn off the phone and stood up. "I just came to see when the results of Shulian will be released."
She said so.
They walked out of the machine room and took off their shoe covers together.
Lu Zhihao patted her shoulder and said to Pei Zhi, "It turns out that Lin Chaoxi was also afraid that she wouldn't get the first prize, so she secretly came to check her grades."
Lin Zhaoxi: “…”
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