A few years ago, Baidu had already started bidding for rankings. Searching was very difficult at the beginning, and most of the web pages were filled with advertisements of various training institutions.
Lin Zhaoxi patiently walked through the many entries of "Olympic Mathematics Training Class", "Senior Tutor of Sanwei University" and "Guidance of Teachers of the Department of Mathematics of Yongchuan University". It took a bit of effort before she realized why she asked Xieran the stupid question of "Mingming Sanwei University is better at mathematics, but the national training team is at Yongchuan University". The answer is very simple, this is tradition.
The answer is simple, but it is even more strange that Xie Ran warned her that "the academic circle is complicated".
She continued to turn two 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" in the search box.
With a single click of the mouse, the web page is instantly refreshed, and the titles pour down like water.
The top news is talking about the math genius in Lake Province.
In the sixth grade of elementary school, he won the first place in the promotion cup competition, won the first prize in the mathematics league for junior high school students three times in junior high school, and won the first prize in the national competition three times in high school. He participated in the last International Mathematical Olympiad and was recommended to Yongchuan University in advance. Now he is in The national training team hit his first Olympiad gold medal in his life.
If it wasn't for the name difference between that classmate and Pei Zhi, Lin Zhaoxi 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 gifted teenagers. After that, she noticed the last sentence of the full text: the first gold medal, why
Thinking of this, she naturally began to search for the results of the national team in the Mathematical Olympiad in recent years.
When a new page opened, Lin Zhaoxi found out that the national team won the team runner-up in the International Mathematical Olympiad last year, so the following news related to the Mathematical Olympiad is a reflection on mathematics education.
The high school students won the runner-up only once, and the news media began to reflect that Mathematics Olympiad education cannot cultivate real mathematicians. By the way, they also criticized the social phenomenon of parents desperately sending their children to cram school for Mathematics Olympiad, and demanded that Mathematics Olympiad training be cooled down.
At that time, there was a burst of news flying all over the sky, Zhong Lin Zhaoxi didn't care about it, but now when she saw the news, she actually felt very uncomfortable.
After all, Lao Lin is running a math cram school. No matter which world she is in, she has participated in the Math Olympiad since she was a child. Now public opinion directly accuses her of the uselessness of the Mathematics Olympiad education she has received since she was a child, and it is really difficult for her to accept it.
It’s uncomfortable, but if you look carefully, she seems to be able to accept some of the views in it, such as: Too many parents force their children to learn Mathematical Olympiad in order to get higher grades, while ignoring the mathematical foundation of nurturing their children.
However, it is difficult for Lin Zhaoxi to accept the view that "Olympiad is useless to most students". After all, she is not a genius, and thanks to Lao Lin's guidance, she embarked on the road of math competitions step by step.
A lot of the news is citing an article from a few years ago saying that an interest and love for mathematics should come naturally.
Euler taught himself "Algebra" at the age of 9, and Gauss quickly calculated the sum of 1 to 100 at the age of 10. Students who are interested in mathematics and extremely talented will naturally embark on the road of mathematics research. It is extremely wrong to force children to attend the Mathematical Olympiad class, use the results of the Mathematical Olympiad to measure the child's mathematical ability, and link it with further education.
Most students who are not interested in mathematics can just master the mathematics knowledge in the classroom, and there is no need to learn Mathematical Olympiad at all.
She took a closer look and found that it was mentioned in an interview draft, and the interviewee was - "Yongchuan University: Feng Deming".
Xie Ran mentioned before that the two leading figures in the domestic mathematics field are no longer accepting students. One of them is Professor Zeng from Sanwei University, and the other is Professor Feng from Yongchuan University.
The content of Professor Zeng Qingran's research falls into the category of "knowing every word but not connecting them together". Lin Zhaoxi felt ashamed that if he wasn't Pei Zhi's mentor, she probably wouldn't know who he was.
And Professor Feng is actually more famous than Professor Zeng. After all, he has proved a mathematical conjecture that has attracted worldwide attention, and he is also in charge of the work of the Institute of Mathematics of Yongchuan University, bringing the Department of Mathematics of this liberal arts college to a leading position in the country...
Thinking of this, Lin Zhaoxi suddenly shivered, and the details buried deep in her memory emerged.
Yongchuan University is very strong in liberal arts. When she filled out her application for the college entrance examination, she wanted to apply to the Department of Psychology of Yongchuan University, but Lao Lin slightly objected and suggested that she go to Sanwei University.
She didn't remember Lao Lin's objections at the time, but the temptation to go to Sanwei University and become an alumnus of Peizhi was enough for her, and she gave up Yongchuan University without hesitation.
Thinking about it now, even the matter of which university to choose and what to study, she made such random decisions, which shows how irresponsible she was to herself.
But why, Lao Lin, who has always been unwilling to interfere with her decision, quietly opposed her going to Yongchuan University
Outside the window is the quiet winter night campus. On the playground in the distance, there is a circle of dim street lights, and the rest of the campus is in darkness. Even though there was a warm air conditioner in the computer room, Lin Zhaoxi felt a little cold.
She knew she was making a serious logical error.
"Professor Feng's name" was found by her search for "Olympiad", and "Yongchuan University" is a very good school. She insisted on including "Old Lin" just because of the order in which these keywords appeared. absurd.
Lin Zhaoxi calmed down a little. The old-fashioned screen in the computer room was dazzled by the glare, but she stared at the search box without blinking.
After a while, she opened the keyboard a little, typed the three words "Feng Deming" with her fingers stiffly, and pressed the space, ready to enter the second name...
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Yongchuan Normal University, National Junior High School Mathematics League, Marking Team.
It was dusk, but the marking office was still brightly lit.
The grading work of the mathematics competition is far more complicated than ordinary people imagine. The students' problem-solving methods are all kinds of strange, which need to be carefully evaluated by the teacher.
This job doesn't cost much, and most of the time is boring, but Gao Yuan still likes to read the students' answer sheets.
Between work, he and Zhang Shuping stood on the balcony outside the office and smoked. The north wind was blowing, and the cigarette burned faster than usual, but Zhang Shuping pinched the filter as if he didn't feel it.
"I don't know what will happen to this year's grades?" Zhang Shuping finally said after smoking a whole cigarette.
There is no subject in this sentence, but Gao Yuan knows that what Zhang Shuping cares about is not those students in Sanwei University who are sure to get good grades after issuing military orders, but those high schools in Yongchuan University that have nothing to do with them but carry too many social expectations students.
Two days ago, there was a bit of news from Yongchuan University that various ideas in the national training team were clashing, and the training was a bit chaotic.
The old man who said that most students don't need to learn Mathematics Olympiad is obsessed with academics, and he doesn't care about the trivial matters of the training team. But the influence of what he said is still there, including the views of "learn naturally" and "don't force children to learn mathematics for the Olympiad", which makes some of the competition training methods they used to be questioned.
Although the teaching work is still going on normally, but to use a movie line to describe it, "people's hearts are a little loose", so Lao Zhang is only worried about the results of the national team next year.
Gao Yuan bit the filter: "Aren't you just worrying about it, let's do our own team well first, before the winter camp is completely wiped out in December this year, the two of us will 'take the blame and resign' and 'not engage in mathematics education' That wouldn't look good at all."
"No." Zhang Shuping was very sure.
"Just relying on those young geniuses you are optimistic about?" Gao Yuan smiled, "Old Zhang, you still have a hard-to-change temperament?"
"Innate?"
"Didn't you always advocate that 'the training camp is to weed out those students who are not capable' and 'concentrate on cultivating a very small number of top students'" Gao Yuan said half-jokingly, "Actually, you are the master of Feng, right?"
After all, you all feel in your bones that it is not necessary for ordinary students to do Mathematical Olympiad training, and geniuses will grow naturally.
"I used to feel that way, but not now."
Gao Yuan smiled: "You have changed, are you in a relationship?"
"Don't talk like Lin Zhaosheng."
As the chief coach of the Yongchuan Provincial Math Training Team, Gao Yuanguo could see Lin Zhaoxi's search process with his own eyes. He would definitely pull Lin Zhaoxi and say, "The little girl is so sharp in analyzing problems, she is indeed your father's daughter."
The news Lin Zhaoxi found was correct. He and Lao Zhang were indeed facing great social and personal psychological pressure.
He has repeatedly read those criticisms on the Internet, but the starting point for teachers and students to look at problems is different.
What Lin Zhaoxi thought was that she was actually not a genius, and she didn't have that much natural love and interest in mathematics.
For Gao Yuan, he saw the speeches of the children who had been tortured by the Mathematical Olympiad for a lifetime of psychological shadows, and realized that the cause he had worked so hard for for many years had caused so many children pain.
Last year when "the national team lost the team gold medal", his thinking was really shaken. Including the fact that only one member of their provincial team entered the 60-man roster of the National Mathematical Olympiad Training Team, he felt that it was nothing.
Until Zhang Shuping found him, he clearly put forward the view that "the training cannot be loosened".
He also asked Zhang Shuping at that time, "Olympiad makes children so painful, why do we insist on letting them learn?"
It was another person on the phone who answered this question.
"What's wrong, Mr. Gao, do you also think mathematics is a game for very few geniuses?" Someone on the phone asked him with a smile.
What did he say at the time, as if to say: "Let's forget it after studying so hard."
The other end answered him directly: "In this world, the only things that don't get tired are eating, sleeping and farting."
His instincts were offended, but the phone hung up and he sat in his office all night before realizing what the short rhetorical question was asking.
— Geniuses need no 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 interest. Is it impossible to grow into a person who can match geniuses through hard work and continuous training
And the person who asked this question actually answered it in the same way.
Regardless of talent, any kid who wants to give it a try clearly deserves it. As teachers, what they have to do is to help children go a little further, that's all.
For this reason, there is a joint training camp for middle and high schools at Sanwei University. After all, it is tiring to do anything in this world except eat, sleep and fart, so if you want to learn mathematics well, it is obviously more tiring.
Gao Yuan rubbed his face: "Where did you find such a wonderful Lin Zhaosheng, who has a lot of knowledge, why just refuse to come to the training team to take classes?"
Zhang Shuping's expression darkened: "I checked his file, it's fine if he doesn't come."
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In the computer room, at the same time Lin Zhaoxi pressed the enter key, someone suddenly patted her on the shoulder.
"Caught by me!"
Lin Zhaoxi forked off the page subconsciously, turned around, and saw Lu Zhihao.
Putting her hand on her heart, Lin Zhaoxi knew that her face must be 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, so I came to catch you and run away together."
"That's good." Lin Zhaoxi pretended to turn off the phone inadvertently, and stood up, "I just came to see when the results of the number couplet will be released."
she said so.
They walked out of the computer room and took off the shoe covers together.
Lu Zhihao patted her on the shoulder, and said to Pei Zhi: "Lin Zhaoxi was also afraid that he would not win the first prize, so he secretly came to check the results."
Lin Zhaoxi: "..."