Chapter 38 Contents
It was a very large reading room.
Lin Chaoxi found that her ability to describe things had significantly declined since she returned to primary school. But facing the reading room that was half the size of a primary school football field, with six floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and desks scattered throughout the reading room, she could not think of a more appropriate adjective other than very large and very exaggerated.
They are the second batch of students coming here.
At the end of the reading room, high school students who were much older than them had already occupied a dozen desks and began to study quietly.
There is no teacher, no blackboard, only the crisp sound of turning pages and very low discussions. It is so quiet that you can hear the sweet chirping of birds outside the window.
From the moment they entered the reading room, the chattering children were put under a silencing spell, and no one dared to speak.
Following Vice Principal Zhang, all the children held their breath and stared, walking along the central axis of the reading room towards the depths of the reading room.
Grey floor tiles and white walls.
On their left side is a tall iron bookshelf that is several times taller than them, and on their right side is a row of desks put together. The unique and rich smell of books is clear and rich, and the books of various colors are dazzling.
Lin Chaoxi walked very slowly. When the principal wasn't paying attention, she went between the bookshelves and looked up to see what books were on them. The books were placed back to back in two rows. Except for the top three shelves which were filled with books of varying thicknesses that students couldn't get to, the rest were filled with all kinds of books.
"Mathematical Olympiad Series for Junior High School Students", "Basics of Number Theory", "Linear Algebra", "Little Mathematical Detective"...
Lin Chaoxi took a deep breath and looked around. Sure enough, all the books on the bookshelf were related to mathematics. Some were old and some were new. Some had labels of the Anning City Library and Anning University, some looked like old books bought from a second-hand bookstore, and some were so new that they looked like they had just been bought from a bookstore.
The organizers of the summer camp have brought in almost all the math books on the market. It's really crazy!
Gradually, the silencing magic was lifted.
There were exclamations of varying lengths in the queue as more and more children discovered that these six bookshelves were actually filled with math-related books.
To be honest, many primary school students in that era had never been to a library properly. What's more, they are now faced with a vast ocean of mathematics-related books, which makes them feel overwhelmed.
The iron frames were far apart. Vice President Zhang took them on a tour and then stood in front of the second frame.
The seats in front of the bookshelf were already crowded with curious and excited students. Lin Chaoxi stood on tiptoe at the back, looking up.
Looking closely, the bookshelf is filled with elementary and junior high school Olympiad math books, as well as many books on thinking training, a large number of 1,000 interesting math problems, reasoning and logic problems, and so on.
"Wow!" The elementary school students kept looking up and let out long exclamations.
“Do we have to learn so much?”
“How can I finish watching this~”
Lin Chaoxi counted and found that the bookshelf had 5 layers in total. After filling up the front and back, there would be a total of 10 layers. Today was July 4th, and the exam was on July 15th. The total number of layers and the number of study days left before the exam after deducting the rest days almost coincided.
It can't be...
Her gaze shifted to the middle-aged man standing in front of the bookshelf.
Vice Principal Zhang wiped his glasses with the corner of his clothes and let the students chatter and ask questions without saying a word.
Finally, when everyone was silent, he spoke.
"The study arrangement for these few days will be mainly self-study." This is the first sentence.
"If you don't understand something, you can ask your teacher." This is the second sentence.
"All exam topics are on the bookshelf, one shelf per day." This is the third sentence.
There was a moment of silence in front of the bookshelf.
When the children heard this, their mouths widened like little goldfish starving for oxygen, including Lin Chaoxi, who went crazy. What a joke, in college, the most common division of responsibilities is that the entire book is the focus, and it is not like now, where a whole shelf is the focus. It is not played like this.
The high school students who were reading on the other side of the library also heard this. Some of them cast a sympathetic glance at these little brats and shook their heads secretly.
I guess the high school students were exhausted after being treated so harshly this morning. Some of the elementary school students near the bookshelves had already subconsciously taken some books to look through, but most of them were still petrified.
Zhang Shuping glanced at all the stunned children and smiled helplessly: "Are you scared of one floor a day?"
"That's really exaggerated!" A little boy opened his hands and compared the length of the bookshelf: "So many!"
"I lied to you." Chang Shu Ping shook his head.
"Ah!" The children were surprised again.
"Each group takes a book," said William Chang. "Take any book you want."
All the children moved, some took their books, some gathered together. I don't know who sat down first, but soon all the students sat cross-legged on the floor, their hairy black heads pressed together.
At this time, Huajuan had secretly taken a book from the bookshelf and asked them to read it together.
Huajuan brought a book called "Olympiad Question Bank - Elementary School Grade 3". It had a colorful cover and yellow paper that made a crisp sound when opened, fully reflecting the timeliness of this question bank.
Huajuan and Lu Zhihao both flipped through it, and the book then fell into her hands.
"What's in the book, Principal?" a little girl looked up and asked William Chang.
Lin Chaoxi also sat on the floor with a book on her knees. She turned the pages of the book and stopped at the table of contents, reading through them one by one.
"Turn to the table of contents," said William Chang.
The children followed William Chang's instructions and flipped the pages of the book.
"No matter when, no matter what kind of book you get, the first thing you have to do is learn to read the catalog." Lin Chaoxi looked up and found that Zhang Shuping glanced at her and said this.
She lowered her head again and ran her fingers over the table of contents. She found that after each chapter in the table of contents of the book she had received, there were different numbers written in pencil.
For example, in this third-grade Olympiad mathematics book, after the first chapter, “Quick Calculation and Clever Calculation,” there is a pencil-written 2. The same number is also written after the sixth chapter, “Filling in the Formula,” and the eighth chapter, “Cleverly Filling in the Operators.”
But in addition to this, some geometric items have the number 7 after them, and number theory related items have the number 1 after them.
"Teacher, what do these numbers mean?" Some students also noticed the cat stuff behind the catalog and raised their hands to ask.
Lin Chaoxi took another quick look at the group of books next to it. The largest number marked after the table of contents was no more than 10, so it should represent the number of days.
"In the catalog, the number after each chapter represents the scope of the exam on the nth day." Zhang Shuping paused and continued, "So, it's not one shelf per day. In fact, every book on this entire bookshelf may be the scope of your daily exam."
"Ah?!" The students were shocked again.
If there is anything more terrible than testing one shelf of books in one day, it would definitely be testing an entire wall of bookshelves in one day.
"How can I finish so many questions?" said Xiao Lu worriedly.
"Then I won't learn it." Hua Juan held his head and poked Pei Zhi nonchalantly, "I will drag down your average score a little bit now. Before the final group test, you can just kick me out."
"No." Pei Zhi answered decisively.
Hanamaki glared at him.
Not only they, but the rest of the group sitting on the ground also erupted in protest: "The teacher is lying!"
“There’s no way I can finish learning this!”
“Too many.”
"What did I lie to you about?" Seeing that the children were badly beaten, William Chang probably felt very happy, so he had a rare friendly look on his face.
"You said there was only one layer, but it has turned into a whole bookshelf!" The little boy who had opened his arms just now drew a big circle in the air with his arms.
"Don't you think one layer is too much?"
"We didn't!" the elementary school students said in unison, including Hanajuan.
"What I mean is that the teacher has already sorted out your thoughts in advance, putting similar or related content together. Isn't that good?"
Good... This is of course very good. Lin Chaoxi looked at the numbers marked after the catalog of each Mathematical Olympiad book, and thought of the knowledge point table she had compiled herself, and felt a little complicated. In fact, the teachers of the summer camp really prepared seriously and wanted to teach them something seriously.
The students looked at each other, not understanding what was good about it. But the innocence of children is that since the teacher has assigned a task, they will at most grumble a few words and still do it obediently.
So the topic changed to——
"Then teacher, shall we skip class today and read here?"
"This is your classroom." Vice Principal Zhang answered while standing in front of a tall iron bookshelf.
"But teacher, we don't know what to learn." Another person asked
"You learn what is in the books." Vice Principal Zhang answered seriously.
"Is the one marked with 1 the content for today's test?" A child was quick and had already pulled out a book from the shelf. He quickly flipped through two pages and pointed to a chapter in the catalog and asked, "It also has '1' written on the back, but this is a math book for junior high school students."
"What's the problem?"
"But...but...but the teacher didn't tell me, and I...I haven't learned it, so I can't do the questions!"
"Then you'll get 0 points." Vice Principal Zhang said this, looked at his watch, and said, "At 10 o'clock, your teacher Jie Ran will appear to answer questions." After saying that, he seemed to want to leave.
At this point, the elementary school students sitting on the ground were furious.
"Are you really not going to have class today?"
"So there's no class tomorrow?"
"So the test papers for today won't be reviewed tomorrow?"
"Should we ask Teacher Jie one by one?"
"Is Teacher Xie busy enough?"
"How do I learn this?"
There were too many questions. The expressions on each little face were different. For elementary school students, this self-study process was too difficult to understand. Lin Chaoxi licked her lips and suddenly remembered something. She took out two large materials from the summer camp from her schoolbag, opened the catalog, and simply flipped through them.
"Lin Zhaoxi, come on and tell me."
Suddenly, Vice Principal Zhang called the roll in front of the bookshelf.
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