Advantages and disadvantages of junior high school Olympic mathematics

On the one hand, olympiad is to train children's thinking ability, on the other hand, it is to increase chips for junior high school. Then, after junior high school, is it necessary for children entering junior high school to learn Olympic Mathematics?

Recently, a friend asked his children if they want to learn competition in junior high school. Is it necessary for children to continue their studies in junior high school for the Olympics in junior high school?

For example, primary school olympiad is a necessity, and every child who wants to be admitted to a good school must learn it; Junior high school olympiad is a luxury, and only those children who study very well have time and energy to learn!

Junior high school olympiad has advantages and disadvantages. Let's talk about the good aspects first, mainly including the following two points:

First, it can promote the progress of knowledge in the classroom. The competition outline is 90% the same as the senior high school entrance examination outline, and the league outline is 70% the same as the senior high school entrance examination outline. In recent years, the finale of the senior high school entrance examination has a competitive trend, and some questions are directly adapted from the competition questions. In addition, if the children do well in the competition, they can win prizes in the national junior high school mathematics competition and league matches, and basically directly send foreign languages, provincial experiments and No.1 middle school. Of course, even if the child doesn't win the prize, it is very advantageous to do the mid-term exam with what he has learned, and high school has a greater chance to enter the competition class and experimental class of the school!

Second, you can exercise your thinking. The first-grade curriculum has changed from three courses of Chinese, mathematics and foreign languages in primary schools to seven courses of Chinese, mathematics, foreign languages, politics, history, geography and health, which greatly increases the difficulty and depth. In addition, physics is added in the second grade and chemistry is added in the third grade, which requires children to have higher thinking ability, especially scientific thinking ability. Therefore, it is necessary to study the competition when they have spare time. In addition, if you want to take the senior high school league in the future, you will start to learn in junior high school. If you lose two years in the math competition, it is really difficult to catch up.

Let's talk about its disadvantages again: the original intention of Olympic Mathematics is to attract middle school students interested in mathematics to participate in mathematics competitions, thus guiding them to make greater progress in mathematics learning! It should be noted that it is aimed at middle school students who are "interested in mathematics", and these students must have the spare capacity to learn knowledge in class; Now, the Olympiad is too utilitarian-linked to the entrance examination, forcing parents to force their children to learn Olympiad, which increases the burden on children in disguise; It may even dampen children's enthusiasm for learning and make them tired of learning!

So my advice on whether to study the competition is:

First, if children especially like math and have a feeling that they can't eat enough knowledge in the class, they can consider letting them learn Olympic Mathematics!

Second, if the child is not too disgusted with the olympiad, but really wants to go to a particularly good high school, he might as well wait patiently for a while and then throw away the olympiad when he is admitted!

Third, if children are particularly disgusted with Olympic Mathematics or have no spare capacity to study, Olympic Mathematics will become a heart disease for children. Just because of my parents' persecution, I had to give up what I wanted. In this case, stop learning olympiad immediately, and don't let children lose confidence in mathematics because of olympiad.

Therefore, in general, junior high school competitions are like delicacies, which are very nutritious; But you can only grow strong if you eat whole grains. Whether to learn or not must be carefully considered according to the specific situation of the child.