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"It's so distressing to see the results of all 0 points, hey."
In the final of Ali's second Global Mathematics Competition, 64 children scored 0 points on their answer sheets, including those who even had a master's degree from Peking University, and only 3 of them got full marks on questions above 70 points.
And professors like SUSTech, doctors from Peking University and others did not even get a score of more than 70 points.
is so difficult, which makes some people wonder, is there any moisture in this competition?
The difficulty is so far, you must know that the doctor of mathematics of Nankai University only got 50 points, while the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences got 60 points, obviously, this difficulty is a bit too much, but Yuan Yaxiang, who was present at the scene, did not say that this topic was too difficult, but was anxious about a 17-year-old secondary school girl looking forward to the results of the exam.
Who is this and what amazing results has she achieved?
And why does it make Academician Yuan Yaxiang feel distressed?
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In 2019, Ali held the first Ali Global Mathematics Competition, and was named the "Feige Cup", the original intention of this competition is not to let children study mathematics very theoretically, but as Mr. Feng said, let children get in touch with mathematics and sow a seed of mathematics.
Younger children are much more resistant to mathematics than older people, so it is important to cultivate children's interest in mathematics.
This competition is interesting, Mr. Feng also mentioned an example, the average score of the higher mathematics test score that year was about 30 points, and he also discovered this, and the education department paid attention to it, so Mr. Feng proposed such a mathematics competition system with national participation.
This format doesn't mean that there are a lot of difficult problems, which is beneficial for people like you, who are especially good at the same kind of problems, but it doesn't play a role in these problems.
Because for some of the old people, they are more resistant to the current difficulty, their generation is in their 60s and 70s, most of them belong to a highly educated person, even if there is no higher education, their high school education is relatively perfect.
They are very familiar with mathematics, so the difficulty is high, which is a great torture for them.
So Mr. Feng wanted them to take the test according to the knowledge points they had learned, and later Ali and Mr. Feng got in touch and carried out a cooperation to launch this "Feige Cup" math competition mode.
The first time it came out, the model was novel, which attracted the attention of the majority of the people, and many people spent the night swimming in the sky of mathematics in order to compete for the championship.
However, in the first final in 2019, although there were many people who were very serious, it was the very high difficulty of this final topic that led to a sudden drop of more than half of the participants in the competition, from 100,000 people at the beginning to more than 10,000 people in the end.
So there was the second Ali Global Mathematics Competition, based on the difficulty of the first final, adding and deleting some questions, and then releasing the questions of the second finals, so that people with a mathematical foundation flocked to it, but as soon as the final questions were released, many people found that this topic was too difficult.
But there are also many people with extremely high mathematical attainments, who have cracked the problem, most of them are Ali's employees, because in the last competition, after the final question was released, many people got a perfect score of 48 points, so people thought that the difficulty of this year's competition would decrease.
However, after a new algorithm program and more difficult questions, the difficulty of this year's questions has increased by 15%.
Turning an already difficult topic into something even more difficult to solve.
The final questions of Ali's second global mathematics competition are almost no one completed within 24 hours, and in the questions below 20 points, more than half of the number of participants, 64 people take the paper is 0 points, and on the questions below 70 points, only three people's scores are full marks, and just said that the people present are from the bath of the previous three days.
It turned out that there was a 17-year-old secondary school student, and as soon as the results came out, in the exclamations and doubts of everyone, it attracted the attention of Yuan Yaxiang, who participated in the competition.
It's hard to help the big scientists.
This secondary school student is called Jiang Ping, a secondary school student in Shaanxi, originally in a secondary school in her hometown, studying accounting, but she has always been interested in programming, and later heard that the better schools for computer science are in Beijing, with the support of her family, she signed up for a programming training class, she learned a lot of knowledge here, and later at the age of 17, I heard that Ali held a global mathematics competition.
So she participated in this math competition, but the math teacher who was struggling couldn't get too high a score, and she was only a 17-year-old child, and she actually got a lot of scores.
So the teacher started a competition, and she thought about having fun, and she really got an excellent result.
Got the second good score in the class of 120 people, it turned out that she was still a student with an amazing talent for mathematics, she learned mathematics very well since she was a child, it turned out that she was born in a mathematical family, and her parents hoped that she could inherit their excellent mathematics since she was a child.
But Jiang Ping didn't want to do this, she has been yearning for the world of programming since she was a child, because her brother is an excellent programmer, from her brother's computer, in a series of codes shown to him, Jiang Ping had the idea of learning programming.
Her brother is very supportive of her sister's learning, so she personally taught her a lot of programming knowledge, and it can be said that her programming skills are also the teaching level of her brother.
Under the encouragement of her father, Jiang Ping's mathematics studies also made her exceptionally excellent, Jiang Ping's father was a well-known local mathematician, mathematics professor, and mathematics master.
It can be said that Jiang Ping's achievements are inherited from his father's excellent genes, so in October, Jiang Ping signed up for Ali's global mathematics competition.
In this competition, Jiang Ping won the 12th place, and for a while, Jiang Ping's name was also praised in Ali.
Among the many teachers, there is a mathematics teacher from Peking University who also specially invited Jiang Ping to study in their school, and Jiang Ping was also very happy to accept this invitation and go to Peking University for advanced study.
In this final, Jiang Ping only made three questions, but in the whole process, her unique thinking was completely different from the thinking of ordinary normal people, but there was not a single mistake in her answers.
It's so magical, as Mr. Feng said: "There are many ways to solve the problem, and this is a new way of thinking."
And he gave the example of Wei Dongyi, he is through an unconventional way of thinking, to solve a formula of mathematical problems, and creatively carry forward this solution, in the Athens Mathematical Olympiad that year, 56% of the research results are solved through his unconventional way of thinking.
Therefore, he believes that a person's talent for mathematics can be bad, but in the process of learning mathematics, a person can solve problems in new ways.
But at the same time, we should also be vigilant, that is, in the process of learning, it is best to get unconventional ideas, and at the same time ensure that the process of solving the problem is unconventional, but the result is regular.
Just like Wei Dongyi back then, when he proposed this unconventional problem-solving model, this model is also very standardized, which can be used in future life to improve the method of solving problems.
Infinite potential to inspire 10,000 people.
But the difficulty in the finals is really great, whether it is a doctor from Peking University or a teacher with many years of experience in mathematics teaching, they did not get a high score, and Zhou Sai, the development director of Alibaba Cloud at the scene, said directly: "Leader, is this a bit difficult."
And there is a very interesting story between Mr. Feng and the development director of Alibaba Cloud.
Later, after the first Ali math competition, the development director of Alibaba Cloud got a total score of more than 150 points, which was the first place in the competition.
At that time, Mr. Feng felt that his results were a little weird, so he complained to the development director of Alibaba Cloud and investigated him.
Therefore, Mr. Feng's questions about the high score of the weekly competition were not solved, but after participating in the competition, Mr. Feng understood the real reason for this high score, so Mr. Feng admired the weekly competition very much.
From the point of view of the difficulty of the final questions, this difficulty is a bit big, but from another point of view, Mr. Feng thinks it is more appropriate, and the original intention of Ali's global mathematics competition is not to select the god of mathematics.
It is to sow a seed of mathematics, so I am very pleased that Jiang Ping can get such results, which is also an affirmation of her attitude towards mathematics.
Jiang Ping's teacher, Mr. Feng, also believes that this way of solving problems is correct in their learning process, which is also the direction of exploration of another way of thinking.
In learning, if you simply think about problems according to the existing thinking, it is difficult to break through yourself, so in learning, the process of thinking about problems should be difficult, so as to exercise students' thinking.
Otherwise, it will not be good to find out when you become an adult, you will learn more at this age, and it will be more difficult to learn when you suddenly break the rules at this time.
Therefore, educators should always pay attention not to impose their own ideas on others, to understand more about students, to respect students in the process of education, and to give them the opportunity to show themselves in learning.
In this way, students will be more focused in the learning process and can learn better knowledge.
epilogue
Jiang Ping has achieved good results with her own efforts and love for this field, and it is also appropriate to be recognized by others, and we must believe that she can go further and further on this road.
The world of mathematics is vast and profound, not only in learning, but also in many areas that everyone has not set foot in, and when you are exposed to a wider range of knowledge, you must maintain a humble attitude, so that you can continue to gain new things on the road in the future.