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Mathematical competition is one of the effective means to discover mathematical talents. Mathematics competition in the modern sense began in Hungary. Most of the winners of some major mathematics competitions have made great achievements in their later careers. Therefore, all developed countries in the world attach great importance to mathematics competitions.
In the past ten years, mathematics competitions in middle schools in China have developed vigorously, with increasing influence. In particular, middle school students in China have been among the best in the most influential and highest-level international mathematical olympiad for many times, and their achievements have attracted worldwide attention, fully demonstrating the intelligence and mathematical ability of the Chinese nation.
Competition mathematics is an extension of a subject. The math contest is an activity. Competition mathematics is the standard written language of Olympic mathematics, which is the abbreviation of Olympic mathematics and refers to mathematical problems in general. Olympic mathematics is named after the Olympic movement, and the scientific standard should be called competition mathematics.
Mathematics competitions have gradually developed from a single city to the whole country and then to the whole world. For example, the math competition in the Soviet Union started in Leningrad and Moscow, and 1962 was extended to the whole country. In the United States, there was no national mathematics competition until 1957.
Mathematical competition activities are also gradually developed from shallow to deep. Mathematics competitions in almost every country are organized by some famous mathematicians, and the test questions are very close to the exercises in middle school textbooks.
Then gradually, some mathematicians spent more energy on topic selection and competition organization. At this time, the test questions are gradually out of the scope of middle school textbooks. Of course, it is still required to state the test questions in the language of elementary mathematics and solve them by the method of elementary mathematics.
Competition mathematics is different from these fields of mathematics. Usually, mathematics often seeks to prove some generalized theorems, while competition mathematics only seeks some special problems. Generally, mathematics pursues to establish general theories and methods, while competition mathematics pursues to solve special problems with special methods.