The new semester has begun. Recently, many parents called me and asked primary school students what grade to start learning Olympic Mathematics. According to my years of experience, my answer to this question is: the best grade for primary school students to learn Olympic mathematics is from the third grade. The reasons are as follows: the children in grade one and grade two are too young to understand problems and have poor long-term memory; Coupled with illiteracy, it is not easy to calculate, and most children will have a hard time learning the Olympic Mathematics; In addition to taking part in the study of Olympic Mathematics, simply relying on parents' counseling or indoctrination often gets twice the result with half the effort, which is easy to dampen children's enthusiasm for learning Olympic Mathematics and make parents exhausted; Therefore, for most children, I do not advocate premature contact with the Olympic Games. However, there are exceptions. Some children are naturally sensitive to numbers, and they can show strong ability to understand problems in the first or second grade of primary school. For these children, it is obviously a waste of talent if some math education is not carried out in time. For these children, you can start training from math games. Children in grades two and three have a certain literacy foundation and mathematical calculation ability because of two years of school study; Children's interest in mathematics has begun to appear, their ability to understand and analyze problems is also growing, and their long-term memory ability has been significantly improved; At this time, most children will show great interest in learning Olympic Mathematics, and their understanding of knowledge will begin to climb to a new level. After a period of study, the confidence in learning will be greatly improved. At this time, the study of Olympic Mathematics will broaden students' horizons and make up for the lack of ordinary classroom knowledge. For the knowledge in the ordinary classroom, there is a general feeling that "other mountains are dwarfed under the sky". , so as to effectively improve academic performance at school. Third, judging from the current knowledge arrangement system of various Olympic mathematics textbooks, the third grade is the most important stage. There are all kinds of basic knowledge of Olympic mathematics, including all kinds of simple calculation and operation rules of integers, all kinds of counting methods and rules of plane geometry, the characteristics of various typical application problems and solving methods. In particular, the characteristics and solving methods of various typical application problems are the basis of various application problems from primary school to junior high school and even senior high school, and play an extremely important role in the whole mathematics learning. No wonder a math teacher said, "If you don't study the third grade course, it will be difficult for you to really enter the hall of math.". From this, we can see the importance of the third grade course in the Olympic Mathematics textbook. It can be said that only from the third year of the Olympic Mathematics course can you really start learning Olympic Mathematics. Fourthly, according to the law of middle school students' development, we usually refer to the students in the third and fourth grades as "the students in the most easily differentiated grades", that is to say, the students in the third and fourth grades will generally develop and change physically and psychologically at this age until they have some changes in their study or discipline: some students make rapid progress in their study and discipline, others stand still, and what's more, some students show some signs of "backwardness" in their study and discipline. If there is no effective correction method, it is likely that those "underachievers" will be "underachievers" in the whole student life. I advocate that parents send their students to the third grade to learn Olympic Mathematics. The reason is to let those students who study well make more progress before they become polarized. For those students who are about to fall behind, we will lend a helping hand in time and try our best to make them fall behind. In my years of teaching practice, this is entirely possible, and there are many successful cases. Through the above explanation, parents will be very clear: No matter from the child's physical or psychological development, or from the formation of students' various learning skills, or even from the construction of the knowledge system of Olympic mathematics textbooks, the third grade is the most suitable grade for learning Olympic mathematics. If you can, don't miss this grade! (Reprinted) The Benefits of Learning Olympic Mathematics Learning has fundamentally promoted the quality and speed of students' thinking development. For students who have spare capacity for study, Olympiad Mathematics is one of the best courses to develop students' logical thinking and abstract thinking, and the ability to think and solve problems emphasized by Olympiad Mathematics is the quality and habit that junior students need to cultivate most. Mathematics comes from reality and serves social practice. People met mathematics on the first day when they came to this world, and mathematics accompanied people's growth. It changes your way of thinking and makes you smarter.