In recent years, the country has been emphasizing the training of mathematical thinking, and many institutions recruit students under the guise of mathematical thinking training, in fact, it is Olympiad Education. Although it is not denied that Olympiad is also helpful to children's mathematical thinking, it is very different from real mathematical thinking training.

First of all, the course content is different:

Mathematical thinking training: pay attention to developing children's brain potential, promote brain development, and cultivate children's thinking, culture and ability, including reading ability, observation ability, expression ability, logical ability, thinking ability, creative thinking, mathematical thinking, abstract thinking, logical analysis thinking, etc. Not limited to math knowledge points or textbooks, children can train everywhere in their lives.

Olympiad Mathematics: Pay attention to the content of textbook knowledge points and cultivate children's problem-solving ability. The difficulty and scope of the topic exceed the level of compulsory education in all countries.

Second, the final curative effect is different.

Mathematical thinking training: develop children's potential, promote the development of left and right brains, and guide children to form a variety of thinking modes, including logical thinking, spatial thinking, reasoning thinking, innovative thinking and so on. , so as to lay a good foundation for future study.

Olympiad Mathematics: Improving logical thinking training for solving mathematical problems has a certain effect on children's brain development.

Third, the learning content is different.

Mathematical thinking training: the teaching materials are lively and interesting, and the teaching content and game settings are specified according to children's psychological characteristics. The content covers: shape, correspondence, space, orientation, comparison, classification, sorting, graphics, spelling and so on.

Olympiad Mathematics: The content is limited to solving mathematical problems, especially those whose difficulty exceeds the level of national compulsory education. Through the cultivation of related mathematical logical thinking mode, find out the problem-solving skills

Fourth, the teaching methods are different.

Mathematical thinking training: pay attention to the vividness and interest of teaching methods, not only the knowledge points in textbooks, but also stimulate children's interest from daily life and guide them to find, analyze and solve problems.

Olympiad Mathematics: Focus on problem solving, or in other words, problem solving skills training.

It should be said that mathematical thinking training and Olympic Mathematics have unique advantages in cultivating children's mathematical thinking, but in cultivating children's mathematical thinking and developing children's potential, parents are advised to choose the way of mathematical thinking training, which is more flexible and interesting and can stimulate children's interest in learning and exploration.

In contrast, the olympiad is more suitable for people with high mathematical talent, but not for children with high mathematical talent. Therefore, for most parents, they only need to report if they really find their children's mathematical talent is super high, otherwise the children's final result will be far lower than expected.