China's five-game winning streak came to an end, and in the just-concluded 65th IMO (International Mathematical Olympiad), we were two points behind the United States team and relegated to second place.
Victory and defeat are common things, and the championship cannot always be won by us, these can be accepted and understood by everyone, but because 4 of the 6 members of the United States team participating in the competition are Asian faces, this makes many netizens feel a shame.
Xiaobian thinks that it is a good thing that we were defeated by "our own people" this time, don't be in a hurry to criticize Xiaobian, first listen to Xiaobian talk about the reasons for thinking so, I believe you will agree with Xiaobian's opinion, in case the views are different, you say it, Xiaobian is willing to accept criticism.
The number of medals we won this time is the same as that of the United States team, both 5 gold medals and 1 silver medal, what is the difference? Just above the fifth question, in 2021 our team total score was 208 points, which improved to 252 points in 2022, and this year it is only 190 points, a record low.
When the United States team trains players, it focuses more on making them interested in mathematics and stimulating their mathematical potential, while the Chinese team pays more attention to coping with the competition through sea tactics.
Therefore, when encountering a question like question 5, it is more beneficial to the contestants with divergent and innovative thinking, and the contestants selected by doing the questions are slightly inferior.
The result of this competition, for our China, is a very good thing, but also a rare opportunity, through this competition, our sea of questions tactics to change a change.
It is not denied that the sea of questions tactics is a good way to achieve high scores in the high school entrance examination, college entrance examination or other exams, and even in the Olympiad competition, but what is the purpose of the mathematics competition and what is the original intention of cultivating talents in this area? It is to reserve scientific research talents for the country.
Exams can be achieved by doing more questions and practicing more, but scientific research requires a very large ability to innovate, if you only wander around in a specific circle, you will not be able to produce scientific research results, and even if you do have a limited effect.
So let's let the real genius shine in his field, the talents cultivated by the sea tactics are not recommended to continue to do useless work, we have to take a long-term view.
Some people blamed the loss of the first place of the Chinese team on Ye Yuxing's mistakes, and only scored 23 points in this competition, ranking 125th among the contestants.
Giving him a reason to say that he was not feeling well, he lost 2 points, Ye Yuxing's spirit of playing with illness is commendable, but we can't blame all the results on illness.
If it is a real mathematical genius like Wei Dongyi Wei Shen who comes to participate in the competition, even if he has a fever and his brain is confused, he is likely to still have a full score, what is a real genius, and who is really suitable for this field, that is, a person who can talk and laugh without affecting normal performance.
Ye Yuxing is obviously more inclined to be cultivated by the tactics of the sea of questions, and he is a "problem-solver" with a high IQ, and if the topic deviates slightly from the normal track, he will be immediately dumbfounded, we have to admit it.
Like Shi Haojia from Hailiang Senior High School, this is a person who is suitable for studying mathematics, no matter how the topic changes, the two competitions in a row are full of 42 points, this is talented, we must work hard, but lack of talent or rigid is really not good.
Shi Haojia is just a rural child, the starting line is not high, until 21 years shortlisted for the "Yau Chengtong Mathematics Leading Talent Training Program", and after an interview with Mr. Yau Chengtong, this is step by step to the top of today, is gold will not be buried.
Mr. Yau Chengtong is a Chinese-American, now a professor at Tsinghua University, who has cultivated many talents in the field of mathematics for the motherland and dedicated himself to the development of scientific research in the mainland.
Teacher Zhao Bin (one of the questioners of the Jiang Ping incident, who said that he would give Jiang Ping 5 million for that teacher) should be proud, he is Shi Haojia's instructor, Shi Haojia got another full score, and Zhao Bin's reputation is high again.
The players of the United States team are also geniuses, just heuristic education, they can surpass the Chinese team players to win the first place in the group, if they do a little more, they may each be full marks, of course, if our genius potential is stimulated, it is also limitless.
So we don't need to take the loss to United States as a shame, their results are good, just because they are really selecting geniuses and cultivating geniuses, we are more focused on cultivating people who are suitable for the mode of competition, who wins and who loses depends on where the focus of this topic is.
Besides, aren't these talents of the United States team also Asian? This shows that we Chinese have a hidden talent in the field of mathematics, and as long as we guide well, the mainland will harvest a lot of scientific research talents, and our country will become stronger and stronger.
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