The word "hoop curse" should be known to all women and children, and people will associate it with the hoop curse on the Monkey King's head. As long as the Tang Priest chants a spell, the Monkey King, who is smart, lively and lovely, will roll in the ground with a headache. Nowadays, the Olympiad in real life (referred to as Olympiad for short) has become a curse on innocent pupils. Most primary school students are bored with reading, and the more they read, the more they hate math. Olympic Mathematics is an international competition established according to the suggestion of UNESCO. Since the mid-1980s, China has organized students to participate in it, but it is only limited to senior high school students and five disciplines, namely, mathematics, science, chemistry, biology and information technology. There has never been a similar competition in primary school and junior high school. The so-called olympiad that primary school students learn now is actually very different from the content of olympiad. It can be said that there is no Olympic content system at all. In fact, the popularity of Olympic Mathematics is to engage in exam-oriented education under the brand of Olympic Mathematics. What's more sad is that many students can't adjust their mentality in time during the Olympics fever, and once they encounter setbacks, they can't stand it, and some even go to extremes.

On the enthusiasm of primary school students in our city to learn Olympic Mathematics and the problems existing in Olympic Mathematics textbooks on the market, I would like to express the following views for readers' reference.

First, there is nothing wrong with learning Olympic Mathematics. The mistake is that everyone learns.

There is nothing wrong with learning olympiad itself. The mistake is that everyone learns. In fact, the Olympic Mathematics is suitable for top students and should not be spread out in a large area, otherwise it will only increase the burden on students. Because olympiad is much more difficult than math syllabus, it is not suitable for most students to study at any age, because it will only make them feel more difficult. But for those students who are interested in mathematics and have the spare capacity to study mathematics, learning Olympic Mathematics is beneficial to their development, because it can give them a chance to improve. About 3% of the students have superior intelligence. For these top students, we can guide them to challenge some interesting problems. But for other students, there is absolutely no need to force them to learn Olympic Mathematics. Learning Olympic Mathematics requires students to have a certain knowledge base, so it is best to learn plane geometry from junior high school. I saw several questions about the third-grade proficiency test in the junior champion book of Olympic Mathematics, and asked students to fill in the blanks according to the rules: 1, 3,6, 10, (), 2 1, 28,36, (). In fact, these questions involve the knowledge about arithmetic progression in senior high school, although junior high school students also rely on observation and speculation. The development of children's abstract thinking is limited by age, and it is not a good thing to be awakened prematurely. Nowadays, many children who have no talent in mathematics are promoted prematurely.

Second, there are many strange questions, difficult problems and "poisonous questions" in the Olympic Mathematical Books.

There is a question in the primary school Olympic Mathematics book: There are six people born on April 1 1 day, all of whom belong to monkeys. The product of their age is 17597 125. What's their total age this year? My undergraduate students who have been engaged in education for many years have no solution. I asked for a master's degree from a famous university of science and technology. His IQ is as high as 140, which only 0.5% people can achieve, but it took some time to figure it out. It is this problem that is used to toss about a large number of ordinary primary school students who are only 10 years old in the overwhelming primary school Olympic mathematics training classes. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why some experts denounced: Olympiad is an acrobatic in mathematics, which is meaningless to primary school students, but some people use it to make money on children! If measured by the curriculum standards stipulated by the state, the Olympic math problems are biased, difficult, strange and poisonous, which seriously violates the spirit of curriculum reform. A lot of content was actually deleted from the curriculum reform since the founding of the People's Republic of China, which has no practical benefit for children to learn mathematics. Olympiad is an acrobatic in mathematics, which attaches great importance to thinking but ignores skills. Kind of like a brain teaser. It is ok to play occasionally, which can broaden your mind. But if you exploit this loophole all day, it's just a dead end, which only makes sense for amateurs and weirdos. For a large number of ordinary children, especially primary school students, blindly following the trend to drill the Olympic Mathematics can not only touch the edge, but also drill out mental derangement.

Third, repeated failures hurt the self-esteem of primary school students.

Qu Qing, a 0/0-year-old girl from a school in Guangzhou, cried after taking the test in Guangzhou Olympic Mathematics School, because she estimated that she could only get 30 points, which was similar to her performance in every Olympic Mathematics test since the first grade of primary school. She was depressed, especially when her mother who had been with her for three years cried. She felt that "she was a failure". He Huabiao, a researcher at China Social Investigation Institute, pointed out that forcing children with weak mathematical logic intelligence to learn Olympic Mathematics will destroy their normal thinking and lead to psychological problems. In recent years, He Huabiao specializes in children's learning and corrective education in problem of juvenile. He found that most problem teenagers have extreme psychological problems, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, and these problems often stem from constant psychological hints, such as "you can't do it", "you should be able to do it well" and "if you can't do it, what will you do in the future". These seemingly reasonable hints have had a tremendous negative impact on teenagers' psychology. Chen Zhaoqing, a fourth-grade student, wrote in his diary: "Today, I attacked the Olympiad for another day, so tired ... I can only do one of the four questions, alas! How annoying it is to live like this day after day! " Mother Chen thinks that her son's diary is just a child's exaggeration. In fact, many parents do not understand the pain in their children's hearts. If repeated failures will hurt children's self-esteem, which will lead to inferiority, then too much emphasis on pulling out the seedlings will easily lead children astray. Psychological pressure is not conducive to the development of children's thinking, which reflects the immature educational consumption mentality of many parents and students at this stage. This is also a common problem of the whole society.

Fourth, the Olympic fever "burns" every corner of primary school students' lives.

"Saturday morning at 9 o'clock to 1 1, to participate in the Olympic Mathematics study; In the afternoon 13- 15, students were trained in the Olympic mathematics test questions in the class; On Sunday morning at 9:00- 1 1, take part in the exercises of Olympic Mathematics; In the afternoon, from 13 to 15, the teacher explained the Olympic math test questions ... "This is the" curriculum "of Guo Wang, a 10-year-old student who lives in a community in our city at the weekend. When other children are happily welcoming the upcoming Children's Day, when many students are having fun in the park under the leadership of their parents, the small kingdom is always faced with countless Olympic math problems. Among many primary school students in our city, there are not a few children like Xiao Kingdom. Olympic Mathematics, like English, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, has become an indispensable "plus code" content for children's rest days. As far as I know, the Olympic Games is a hot topic in the primary school education in our city. I made a survey of Class 7, Grade 4 in a primary school in our city. The results show that 67% of primary school students said that they had participated in the Olympic Mathematics study, and 36% of primary school students said that they were still studying the Olympic Mathematics. Olympic Mathematics has now become a "compulsory course" for primary school students. Because they can't do the' college entrance examination' on the test paper. It is understood that in some primary school math exams, so-called "additional questions" and "high problems" often appear at the end of the test paper, most of which are Olympic math questions. The parent revealed that most of the Olympic math classes are taught by math teachers from various schools in person, and the knowledge is self-evident.

According to the Olympic fever phenomenon in our city, I think there are four major misunderstandings.

There are four main reasons for the continued popularity of Olympic Mathematics: First, when junior high school students enter junior high school, prestigious schools value the results of Olympic Mathematics. Because the examination was cancelled in junior high school, the selection of students mainly depends on the quality education report and various awards. If you can use the Olympic Mathematics, you will undoubtedly gain more weight. Second, some remedial classes run by the society took the opportunity to speculate, so that parents did not understand; Third, parents' herd mentality. In fact, most parents don't know the Olympiad, regardless of whether their children are interested in it. However, once the communication, I found that my child was in the Olympic math class, and I was afraid that my child would miss it, so I followed the trend and sent my child to the Olympic math class. Fourth, parents expect too much from their children. They always hope that their children can learn more and add more weight to future competitions.

In view of the continuous upsurge of Olympic fever in our city, my heart is extremely sad. Olympiad mathematics was originally intended to tap talents and cultivate interests, but as a result, so many children who hate Olympiad mathematics and mathematics were trained. Isn't this educational orientation worthy of our reflection?