"Olympiad" is the abbreviation of Olympic Mathematics Competition. 1934 and 1935, the former Soviet Union began to hold mathematics competitions for middle school students in Leningrad and Moscow, and 1959 held the first international mathematics Olympic competition in Bucharest.

As an international competition, the International Mathematical Olympiad was put forward by international mathematical education experts. The range of topics exceeds the level of compulsory education in various countries, and the difficulty greatly exceeds the college entrance examination. According to relevant experts, only 5% of children with extraordinary intelligence are suitable for learning the Olympic Mathematics, and it is rare for them to reach the top of the international mathematical Olympics all the way.

In recent years, all kinds of extracurricular mathematics classes and training courses in China, which are much higher than the classroom mathematics teaching content, have been named "Olympiad", which makes the cultivation of "Olympiad" gradually break away from the track of selecting Olympiad athletes and highlights the characteristics of universality. Although many well-known mathematicians and mathematics educators have called for vigilance against the deviation of "Olympic Mathematics", the subtle relationship between the results of "Olympic Mathematics" and secondary school enrollment makes it difficult to stop the trend of expanding the connotation of "Olympic Mathematics".

Olympic mathematics is the education and training to win the Olympic competition.

As for the math competition, it is only a competition in a certain field, and the difficulty is not necessarily.