On the Transformation from Olympic Mathematics to Thinking Training
Just over a month after school started, Ms. Huang's children got back all kinds of leaflets. To her surprise, the original Olympic math class disappeared, but some expansion classes and thinking classes emerged one after another. After signing up for the interest class, I analyzed the data I got back from my children, and it turned out that I studied Olympiad!
The interview found that after the country, provinces and cities applied for suspension of the Olympic Mathematics class many times, the Olympic Mathematics class changed into a vest and quietly became a variety of thinking training classes. Some training classes were full on the day of registration. I have stopped the Olympic Games for 1 1 year. Why is it still difficult to stop? The biggest problem is: Olympiad is still an important chip to impact famous schools. Some education experts say that this has led to more and more crazy stopping of the Olympic math class.
Mathematical Olympic courseware transforming thinking training courseware
Shortly after the beginning of the training class of innovative thinking in mathematics and the English interest class, Ms. Huang was dazzled by all kinds of leaflets brought back by her son. Ms. Huang took a closer look and found that the leaflet said that students interested in mathematics should cultivate the analytical ability of applying what they have learned, but did not disclose what they wanted to learn. Attend 2~4 classes a month, including accommodation. It costs more than RMB 1000 to sign up for one class.
However, Ms. Huang quickly signed up for her son. But when I came back to see my son's information, I found that chickens and ducks were in the same cage. Isn't the positive and negative probability of coins an Austrian number?
The survey found that the training institutions in the new school year did not explicitly put forward the Olympic Mathematics course as before, but enrolled students in the name of mathematics interest class, mathematics extracurricular class and thinking development class. Calling the learning and thinking training institution, the staff in charge of enrollment appeared to be more cautious, indicating that the institution did not have an Olympic math class. According to a friend's introduction, it is convenient to say that there is a math training class, which is similar to the content of Olympic Mathematics, and is mainly responsible for the extension and expansion of some math knowledge. Students must also take placement exams before entering school.
Although the tuition is expensive, the quota will be full in one day.
Coincidentally, another training institution in the city, Mr. Jiang, who is one-on-one in charge of enrollment in Zhikang, told me that this institution belongs to Learning and Thinking, and its registration for the autumn Olympics has been closed, and it was all full as early as June. According to its introduction, at present, there are more than 1 0,000 people studying the Olympic Mathematics in this institution, among which 1 to 1 0, 20 people teach in small classes. If the training course is completed in four quarters, the cost is about 1 10,000 yuan and 20,000 yuan respectively.
Not only is the Olympic Mathematics course in training institutions still hot, but it is reported that there is still a market for underground Olympic Mathematics training courses. During the summer vacation, Mr. Zhang, a parent, helped his son sign up for the autumn Olympic class at China Normal University. Teachers are mainly from the Department of Mathematics of China Normal University and college students. Mr. Zhang said that in order to choose a good seat, he arrived at the registration point at 7 am, but there was a long queue at the scene. Teacher Zhang said that compared with the expensive tuition fees of training institutions, he can still afford the 630 yuan/semester expenses of the Chinese Normal University Olympic Mathematics Class.
It has been called 1 1 year to stop the Olympic Games.
In fact, the slogan of stopping the Olympic Games has been called 1 1 year, but this high-speed train has never stopped. On August 28th, before the start of this semester, the website of the Ministry of Education posted 30 supervision orders for the start of autumn semester. The main contents include: primary and secondary schools in the compulsory education stage are not allowed to take any form of examination, evaluation, testing and other ways to select students, it is forbidden to hold training courses linked to admission, and resolutely stop the behavior of linking the evaluation of disciplines and professional grades such as the Olympics with school admission, and it is not allowed to set up or set up key classes in disguise.
As early as 200 1, the Ministry of Education issued a ban, stipulating that the results of Olympic Mathematics should not be linked to enrollment. 20 10 the Ministry of education has also made major adjustments to the policy of adding points to the college entrance examination, stipulating that domestic Olympic games only add points and do not walk. In June this year, Guangzhou Education Bureau reiterated eight bans on compulsory education, including six bans specifically aimed at the Olympiad, to guide the removal of the utilitarianism of the Olympiad.
cause
30% of junior high school exams are olympiad.
Training thinking is the second, and the more direct goal is to participate in the annual China Cup Mathematics Competition. The teacher of an Olympic Mathematics training institution makes no secret of the effectiveness of learning Olympic Mathematics when selling it to others. In fact, the hardest hit area of Guangzhou Olympic Mathematics is primary school, because the additional questions in the junior high school entrance examination include Olympic Mathematics, 70% of which are taught in textbooks, and the remaining 30% are basic questions of Olympic Mathematics. Some parents said this.
Not only that, the annual China Cup has also become the highlight of the Olympic students' competition. The students who can win the prize in this competition are equivalent to getting the VIP card of a famous school, and the famous schools in the city can choose at will. According to some training institutions, the China Cup competition is a necessary admission ticket to the prestigious Washington school. This year, Washington Olympic Mathematics School enrolled 80 students, 65 of whom studied Olympic Mathematics in our college.
In fact, in the first half of this year, the Municipal Education Bureau made it clear that the results of the Olympic Games should not be linked to enrollment, nor can they be used as the basis for rewarding extra points, arranging classes and transferring schools. However, it is reported that for these policies, there are policies in middle schools and countermeasures in the next.
The headmaster of a private school in Liwan District told me that it was clearly written in the previous enrollment brochure that students who won the China Cup could be admitted with lower grades, scholarships and key classes. If you can't make a fair commitment now, you can take other measures. For example, before the results of the joint entrance examination are announced, the teacher will add 20 points to the winners of the China Cup, and sort them according to the extra points, so as to ensure that the top students in the Olympic Mathematics can be recruited without causing criticism.
For the vast majority of students and parents, in the face of Olympic Mathematics, on the one hand, they are struggling in pain, on the other hand, they have to work overtime from the perspective of utility, because Olympic Mathematics is an important stepping stone to impact famous schools.
Countermeasures
Only by changing the college entrance examination system can the olympiad be cooled down.
Xiong Bingqi, a famous education expert and vice president of 2 1 Century Education Development Research Institute, said that there is a training market with a share of more than 200 billion yuan, of which 80% is subject-based training, including primary and secondary school training, including Olympic Mathematics.
The current suspension is only to stop training courses related to further study. He said, however, in the market, training courses explicitly linked to enrollment have accounted for a small part of the total. It is precisely because of this that although there are many voices to stop the Olympic Mathematics training courses nationwide so far, most of them are high-profile opening and low-key ending, and even the more they stop, the crazier they get. Only by promoting the balance of compulsory education and changing the college entrance examination system can we fundamentally change the madness of the Olympic Mathematics market. He said, just as the best way to rectify the school choice fever is to seize the source and promote the balanced development of education, returning the Olympic Mathematics to rationality is also to balance the quality of running schools in every junior high school and primary school.
Xiong Bingqi believes that only by running every compulsory education school well can the training fever and textual research fever in compulsory education really cool down and become calm, and play its due role in students' training.
Prove legal
An overly one-sided attack on the Olympic Games
On the one hand, all parties have stopped the Olympic Games, on the other hand, some experts think that the blow to the Olympic Games is too one-sided. In fact, Olympiad has trained many talents for China, and many scientists in China were born at the top of Olympiad. Zhu Huawei, a member of China Mathematical Olympiad Committee, said that many gold medal winners of the International Mathematical Olympiad were sent to Peking University, and many people made great achievements after going abroad. It's just that education is not balanced now, and there are only a few good schools. Olympic Mathematics has become a sieve for selecting talents in schools and a scapegoat.
The person in charge of Guangzhou Olympic Mathematics School told me that the public opinion has reached another peak, but it is bothering the children who are really interested in Olympic Mathematics and are willing to learn. As a matter of fact, the Olympic Mathematics does have a great effect on children's thinking exercise. Every year, many teenagers in Guangzhou get good results in the World Junior Olympic Mathematics Competition. Because the blow to the Olympic Mathematics is too tight, provincial and municipal Olympic Mathematics schools dare not come out to publicize, so they can only do practical things in a low profile.
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