The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), known as the "Mathematical World Cup", was founded in 1959 and is held once a year, and is hosted by participating countries in turn. The purpose is to discover and encourage young people with mathematical talent in the world, create conditions for scientific education exchanges among countries, and enhance the friendly relationship between teachers and students in various countries.
The International Olympic Mathematics Competition is the longest competition in the history of the International Science Olympics, and it is also an international mathematics competition for middle school students, which has a great influence in the world. China started to participate in IMO from 1985, and * * * ranked first with the total score of 19.
20/kloc-in July, 2005, in the 56th International Mathematical Olympiad held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the United States beat China, an established team, for the first time and won the first place.
From July 6, 20 10 to July 6, 2, 5 1 International Olympic Mathematics Competition was held in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, with 1200 contestants from 105 countries participating.
The drafting method of the competition provides questions and answers for participating countries except the host country, and the host country forms a drafting Committee to select candidate topics from the submitted topics. Team leaders from various countries arrived a few days earlier than the team members, and discussed the questions and official answers. Each team leader translated the test questions into his own language. Candidates who are not selected will be announced before the next competition so that participating countries can use them for training and testing.
Because the team leader knows the problem, he can't get in touch with the contestants until after the game. They stayed at the hotel arranged by the conference, and the location was not announced. Team members are led by the deputy team leader and sometimes accompanied by observers. They live in university dormitories and are not allowed to communicate with the outside world, including making phone calls and surfing the Internet. The conference also arranged a tour guide for each participating team to take care of the team members, explain the schedule and rules to the team members, lead the team members to and from various places, and arrange sightseeing activities after the game. The accommodation and food expenses of the team leader, deputy team leader and contestants shall be borne by the conference, and the expenses of observers shall be borne by themselves.
There are two days to correct the answer sheet after the game. Each question is evaluated and corrected by the leaders and deputy leaders of various countries and the coordinator designated by the host country, and the final score is negotiated. The team leader tried to score points for the contestants from the coordinator. If they can't reach an agreement, they will submit it to the main review Committee for arbitration. Finally, the scores of gold, silver and copper were determined, and awards were given at the closing ceremony of the contest.