For a long time, the strength of China players in international mathematics competitions is obvious to all. Even the American team, which has made outstanding performance in various math competitions in recent years, has always been a topic because there are more and more face of china in the team. However, why did China lose collectively this time? This issue has caused extensive discussion on domestic social media.
Romanian Masters of Mathematics is an international invitational tournament sponsored by Romanian Mathematical Society, which is held every February. It is regarded as the most difficult project of middle school students' Mathematical Olympiad, and it is also one of the three major international mathematical competitions (IMO, RMO and RMM) for middle school students in the name of the national team.
Chinese-Americans who are "naturally good at mathematics" basically never miss similar competitions. Only from the Romanian mathematics masters team, the United States has basically won the championship since 20 15, and the players who won the gold medal have more or less appeared from China.
In 20 19, three American players won gold medals, of which 1 was from China.
In 20 16, two American players won gold medals, of which 1 was from China.
In the 20 15 competition, three American players won the gold medal, of which 1 was from China and one from China won the silver medal.
Even the teacher who led the team is Boshen Luo from China. According to public information, Boshen Luo was born in 1982, and has been the coach of the US Olympic team since 20 15.
Take IMO (International Olympic Mathematics Competition) as an example. The competition in 20 15 was that the United States won the championship again after 2 1 year. At that time, the championship of the American team was considered by Washington post to be comparable to the "miracle on ice" of 1980. That year, the American ice hockey team defeated the former Soviet Union, which monopolized the Olympic ice hockey gold medal for more than 40 years, causing a shock.
Feng Zuming, the team leader and coach of IMO USA for many years, admitted that there were China students in the winning USA team.
The China players of the American team are still so tough. In many people's impression, China's mathematical strength should be stronger.
Therefore, after learning the news that China athletes didn't win the gold medal this time, many netizens expressed dissatisfaction with it, and even linked the failure to the cancellation of the Olympic Games and continuing education by the Ministry of Education.
According to the Workers' Daily, in 200 1 year, after the Ministry of Education issued a ban on Olympic Games, in 2006 54 38+00, Beijing, Guangdong, Hebei, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places also took measures one after another to ban Olympic Games classes and stop "Olympic Games". At the beginning of 20 16, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission issued a document explicitly requiring public schools "not to take the scores of various competitions, Olympic examinations, awards, certificates, etc. as the basis for students' admission".
In March last year, in order to develop quality education, promote education equity, scientifically select talents, and ensure fair, just, standardized and orderly enrollment of college entrance examination, the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in Enrollment of Ordinary Colleges and Universities in 20 18, and completely canceled the national college entrance examination plus points items such as sports special students, middle school students' academic Olympic competitions, science and technology competitions, provincial outstanding students, and outstanding ideological and political moral achievements.
It is worth mentioning that, although the "extra points for the college entrance examination" were cancelled, the "Qiu Chengtong Mathematics Talents Class" and "Mathematics Talents Class" announced by Tsinghua University (score line, major setting) and Peking University (score line, major setting) are aimed at the contestants.
According to the enrollment brochure, Peking University 20 18 Mathematics Talents Class recruits "ordinary high school students who are interested in mathematics research" and meets one of the following conditions: those who have achieved excellent results in the national finals of China Mathematical Olympics; Have expertise in mathematics, and have achieved excellent results in related learning and practice activities of mathematics major at home and abroad.
Some netizens believe that the cancellation of the competition not only directly led to the suspension of many competition classes, but also caused many people's attention to the competition to plummet. Even the "excellent math class" can't save anything.
As a matter of fact, the Romanian Masters of Mathematics has been held since 2008, and at that time, all provinces and cities in China had already implemented the Olympic Games ban.
Moreover, as can be seen from the data over the years, China's performance in the competition is sometimes good and sometimes bad.
According to Wikipedia, China started to participate in the Romanian Masters of Mathematics in the second year (2009). From 2009 to 20 17 (China did not participate in the competition in 20 18), China team won the first prize twice (in 2009 and 20 12).
Specifically, not every player won the gold medal. 20 13 and 20 15, China's best result was only silver medal, and the overall ranking of the team dropped to 13 and 12 respectively.
In this year's competition, the total score of China team dropped from the third place in 20 17 to the sixth place, and there was no gold medal. Attentive netizens found the special score of the players-China players were almost eliminated by the third question: except one student who got 1, all the other five students got 0.
Of the nine players from other countries who won the gold medal, seven got full marks.
It is this combination problem that makes the China team "completely annihilated":
Netizens believe that the top two silver medalists of China team got full marks on all subjects except the third one, which is the reason why others opened the gap. "Otherwise, they are the bosses of a pile of gold medals." .
Therefore, some netizens believe that the China team's "short board is obvious" this time, and the failure may be due to insufficient preparation for the exam.
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