Liu Shuangxi still likes watching movies, but he has no interest in making movies himself, so he explained to Ding Wan the matters that needed to be dealt with, and then slipped back to Sangang County and became a good student in class every day. As for him being able to calm down and go back to school, it was also because he was a little tired from the hard work in the past six months. After all, he had covered tens of thousands of kilometers in the long lap of Xiangjiang in the Soviet Union.
In the first two days after arriving home, Liu Guoqing thought that his son had gotten into trouble. He called Beijing and Pengcheng and asked around before confirming that he was fine. So to celebrate Liu Shuangxi, he began to study hard and made a big meal to reward him. As a result, the two of them My stomach was upset for three days.
They had been suffering for the past few days, but Principal Hu was very worried. When he saw Liu Shuangxi coming back to prepare for the exam as promised, he specially invited his old classmates from the provincial capital to sit in charge. As a result, when the teacher arrived, the students disappeared again, and the anxious old Hu ran away again. Education Bureau, ask the Director to help ask about County Magistrate Liu's situation.
"Oh, my little ancestor, you are back. I miss you so much."
Returning to school again, Principal Hu¡¯s excitement shocked Liu Shuangxi. How could he be like this after not seeing him for three days? I didn't come back for two months before. After asking carefully, I found out that it turned out that a special education was arranged to tutor Mathematics Olympiad, and that Lao Hu was complained by the education director for looking for him. It was better not to talk about the shame of getting food poisoning after eating at home. Liu Shuangxi made up a very reasonable reason and put the matter aside for the time being.
"Uncle Hu, things have really happened suddenly in the past two days. I will call you in advance if this happens in the future. The Education Bureau can just ask my dad to say hello. Can you take me to see this person first? Where¡¯s the tutor?¡±
There are no greater sorrows or joys in life than this. Last night, I was criticized by the director, saying that I was currying favor with the county leaders. This morning, the county magistrate¡¯s son promised to say hello. Although Principal Hu had some thoughts of currying favor, he still liked Liu Shuangxi from the bottom of his heart. .
"Since everything is fine, it's just a small misunderstanding in the bureau, so there is no need to trouble County Magistrate Liu. Let me tell you about this teacher first. He teaches at the No. 13 Middle School in the provincial capital and has been teaching in the past few years. Researching the topic of the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO for short), he also participated as an observer in the IMO competition held in the United States the year before last year. It can be said that he is the absolute winner of our province."
Before Principal Hu said his name, Liu Shuangxi knew who this person was. This teacher Song Bolin was indeed a frequent visitor to IMO. Although he had not been exposed to the Olympiad during the three years of junior high school in his previous life, nor did he study in No. 13 Middle School, he had still heard of it. Teacher Song's students represented China twice in the IMO competition. You must know that since 1986, only 6 players have been sent to each session. After arriving in the new century, I heard about him by chance, but at that time he was already Principal Song of a private school.
When Song Bolin saw Liu Shuangxi, he was surprised for a moment. This child didn't look like a primary school student. Even junior high school students today who are slower in development are not as tall as him. He must be 1.6 meters tall, right? Then Teacher Song lowered his expression and asked: "Old Hu, is this the Liu Shuangxi you are talking about? The child looks pretty good and energetic, but before I teach the student, I have to ask him clearly whether he wants to learn the Mathematical Olympiad or not. Three days for fishing and two days for drying nets, my time is limited.¡±
Do you want to learn or not? This question really stunned Liu Shuangxi, because although he had never learned the Mathematical Olympiad himself, he still took his son to various classes before he was reborn. According to his inference, the question makers of my country's Mathematical Olympiad competition are by no means first-class mathematicians. Because the questions do not involve the content of modern mathematics or calculus, they are all problems of classical mathematics.
Liu Shuangxi once arrogantly speculated that these brainstorming question makers may not even have basic modern mathematical ideas. Some Olympiad Mathematical Olympiad tutors have not received systematic higher education in mathematics. Otherwise, these people would never spare no effort to lead the children around in difficult problems, wasting the children's beautiful childhood and youth, and letting the children's knowledge The scope is too narrow and mathematics is too modular.
Because the healthy growth of children requires a wide range of knowledge reserves, and the energy and time to accept new knowledge are limited. Innovative thinking, a sense of cooperation, the courage to challenge authority, correctly handling the interpersonal relationships around you, and positioning in life. The establishment of these characters in adolescence is still important. These excellent qualities are more important to the healthy development of children, and these qualities cannot be reflected by a single Mathematical Olympiad score, nor can they be given by a single Mathematical Olympiad training. Most Mathematical Olympiad learners are not interested in mathematics themselves, they just solve problems for the sake of solving problems, in order to get good grades so that they can enter a good school.
At the same time, the content of the Mathematical Olympiad also seriously violates the laws of popular mathematics education. In Liu Shuangxi's impression, elementary school Mathematical Olympiads require knowledge from junior high school to solve, while junior high school students need knowledge from high school to solve it, and high school students need knowledge from university to solve it more conveniently. The general rule is that the solution method given by the Olympiad is quite cumbersome.It is quite simple to use higher-level knowledge to solve higher-level problems. It is quite simple to use higher-level knowledge to solve the same problem. But Mathematical Olympiad teachers are "disdainful" of it because it doesn't seem complicated enough to train people's thinking.
In addition to his own ideas, Liu Shuangxi also came into contact with the attitudes of some masters while working in the Political Research Office. Professor Chen Shengshen, a figure who represents the level of mathematics research in our country, when he was walking at Nankai University in his later years, students often came to ask for advice with Mathematical Olympiad problems, and Professor Chen's answer was: I can't do it. I think it's not that I won't, but that I disdain.
The other one is Mr. Yau Shing-tung, an academician of the National Academy of Sciences. He was the only Chinese to win the Fields Medal, the highest award in mathematics, before Liu Shuangxi was reborn. He is also worried about the high investment and attention given to the Mathematical Olympiad by the society. For another example, the Mathematical Olympiad contestant who followed him to do mathematics research did not have the correct research methods and ideas, and needed to expend a lot of energy to change the students' habits.
There are also Mathematical Olympiad competitions abroad, but unlike China, which invests so much energy and time, the contestants only discuss it together out of interest during the holidays, and the Mathematical Olympiad results are by no means a credential for entering a first-rate university in the United States, but third-rate universities in the United States value this. score. Even a deputy mayor of Beijing commented on the Mathematical Olympiad on the radio: It is a boring competition that is simply ruining the future of children. Therefore, regardless of past and present life, for Liu Shuangxi, who has no pressure to enter college, whether he can learn the Mathematical Olympiad or not is really not very important.
Liu Shuangxi was in a daze without answering, but Song Bolin secretly praised him. In the past, many children were sent to him through various relationships, and they would be asked questions such as "Do you like to learn?" and "Do you want to learn?" Most children would immediately give a positive answer. After a period of time, After teaching, he found that the children who were hesitant but persisted in learning had much better grades than those who answered readily.
(When I woke up and started typing, I suddenly realized that this chapter was not published. I¡¯m sorry, I¡¯ll save it and save it~)