On July 12, the closing ceremony of the 64th IMO in 2023 was held at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. The Chinese team won the first place in the world with 6 gold medals and 240 points. This year's IMO gold medal line is 32 points, a total of 53 people won the gold medal; the silver medal line is 25 points, a total of 89 people won the silver medal; the bronze medal line is 18 points, a total of 173 people won the bronze medal. Among them, Wang Chunji, a student of Ape Tutoring, won a gold medal with full marks!
Since 2020, a total of 632 Yuanfudao students have won gold, silver, and bronze medals in various competitions, of which 108 have entered the national training team. At the same time, in the past three years, Yuanfudao has also accompanied 133 high school students who passed the college entrance examination and entered Tsinghua University and Peking University.
For a long time, Yuanfudao related competition counseling team has been committed to providing high-quality educational resources and long-term professional guidance to help students find a more efficient learning path in the process of preparing for national competitions. Recently, the competition teachers of the two students of Ape Coaching——Teachers Wang Zhe and Mao Zihao also shared their short stories during the training of the two students.
In 2021, after in-depth exchanges with Wang Chunji, Sun Qiao and other students and their parents, Wang Zhe, Mao Zihao and other competition lecturers set out to design a mathematics competition course product that better meets the learning needs of the students - Mathematics The provincial team of the competition has a small class, and a pioneering configuration of the exclusive "test paper correction service" for the competition.
For mathematical problem solving, especially competition mathematics, it is relatively easy to verify that something is correct, but how to think of such a thing requires a lot of thinking, which is also the most important link. Therefore, every question presented in the classroom and test papers, and every competition lecturer is very cautious.
For this reason, in many cases, in order to understand the students' learning situation more directly and quickly, teachers often have to stay up all night to correct all the test papers. At the same time, plus lesson preparation and answering questions, it often lasts for 3 or 4 days. The two teachers Wang Zhe and Mao Zihao shared: "We and every student are making mutual achievements. Many people may not imagine that our competition lecturers are preparing to provide students with better course content. In the process, I often think about a topic for a whole day, which also allows us to continue to improve our teaching ability."
At the same time, in order to make the classroom effect solid and useful, each competition lecturer will try his best to stand from the perspective of students, and think clearly about the possible thinking direction and problems that may arise in each question. Sometimes, some "ingenious" methods with great learning value are selected from the students' answers, and shared in class for all students to learn together.
Teachers Wang Zhe and Mao Zihao said that Sun Qiao is a veteran who has been selected into the training team twice, and also a veteran student of the small class of the Provincial Team of the Ape Tutoring Mathematics Competition. When Yuanfudao opened the first provincial team class, all the students who signed up were asked to fill in the goals of the learning mathematics competition. Only Sun Qiao directly wrote the IMO gold medal. This goal was quite bold for him who was still in the third year of junior high school, so we noticed him from the beginning. At first, his ranking in the provincial team class was not considered high, and he often maintained the fourth or fifth status. However, he has always maintained the state of "one day at a time, and unexpected crash", and he continues to learn and improve with his teachers in Yuanfudao. The long-term teaching and communication has added a layer of friendship between teachers and students.
As early as elementary school, Wang Chunji was well-known in the "mathematics competition circle" for his outstanding strength. In the process of completing Yuanfudao's set of papers, his performance has always been very stable. Teacher Mao Zihao joked, "Many of his ideas for solving problems are surprisingly subtle. Sometimes we can even use them as 'standard answers' for explanation. When teaching such talented players, sometimes I feel that I am no longer If you work harder, you won't be able to keep up with the students."
According to teachers Wang Zhe and Mao Zihao, learning mathematics competitions does require talent, but it requires hard work and persistence. Those who shine in the field of mathematics do not rely on pure talent to surpass others, but what needs to be seen is their continuous hard work. Going forward side by side with these shining children, the Yuanfudao competition team will continue to persevere, and every competition lecturer will also persevere. In addition to hoping that more and more students can achieve excellent results, they also hope that they will be able to participate in the competition. During the learning process, it can cultivate students' growing self-confidence, the spirit of not being afraid of difficulties, and the way of thinking that is both imaginative and detailed.