For many students, mathematics is like a mountain that is difficult to cross. It's hard to say I love you. For parents, with the pressure of senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination, the proportion of mathematics in scores has exposed its position. Especially in the past two years, with the rise of artificial intelligence, mathematics has once again risen to an important height.

Zhang said, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences: "Mathematics will definitely become one of the most important driving forces of the next scientific and technological revolution." The number of mathematics colleges also accounts for the largest proportion of all extracurricular colleges, but many students' mathematics learning begins with hobbies and disappears when they graduate from high school.

What's the point of learning mathematics? In a math summer camp recently, many experts said that math is not the road to success, nor is it an opportunity for further study, but to cultivate students' abstract ability and logical thinking ability. Only by eliminating axioms and returning to the subject itself can students really get close to mathematics, love mathematics and learn mathematics well.

The purpose of learning mathematics does not mean success.

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Experts are influenced by pragmatism. When it comes to mathematics, most people think of "usefulness" first, which reflects our lack of understanding of mathematics. Practicality is only the tip of the iceberg of mathematics, and it is an abstract art related to music, painting and philosophy.

In the view of Zheng Gang, vice president of China Education Association, learning mathematics knowledge is actually to cultivate abstract ability. "This may be more important than the logical thinking you can form. Useless use may be the biggest use. The purpose of learning mathematics does not mean becoming a successful person.

So why should we study math? Zheng Gang once took one of his students who was good at mathematical modeling and quantitative research as an example and won the first prize of the Challenge Cup. As a science student, he resolutely chose the teaching major of liberal arts when he was a graduate student. During my master's degree, I became the only student in China who won the first prize of the Challenger Cup for Arts and Sciences with a solid foundation in mathematics.

"Mathematics is a kind of culture, a kind of' ideological gymnastics' and the core of modern rational culture. The systematic study of mathematics has formed his good logical thinking and abstract ability, and laid a good foundation for the all-round development of students.

Zheng Gang said: "What colleges and universities need is comprehensive talents with rational thinking."