Haha, Teacher Qiao. Are you asking him to change his last name?
Lang Jie felt quite uncomfortable being told lies at an advanced age. He could only hope that no one would notice Qiao Yu's score and the name of Tieyi Middle School, and then ask him. But he didn't wait. He had this expectation, and another math teacher from the first year of high school walked into the office and excitedly chatted about this topic.
"Hey, Teacher Lan, that Qiao Yu from the junior high school you picked out actually entered the finals of the Little Libaba Department. That's amazing! If I were to sign up for the competition, I might not be able to make it to the finals."
After hearing this, Lan Jie didn't feel honored, he just felt dizzy.
After five years of development, this competition has become more influential in the mathematics circle.
Especially now, the requirements for high school teachers are getting higher and higher. Ten years ago, in high schools like Tieyi Middle School, all outstanding graduates with a bachelor's degree in teacher education could enter, but starting from five years ago, starting to recruit teachers requires a master's degree in a related major. .
As for those key middle schools, although the requirement may be a master's degree, most of the students actually admitted have a doctoral degree.
Little Libaba's mathematics competition has no threshold and no registration fee. In addition, the competition is scheduled on the weekend and lasts for two full days. As long as the school does not explicitly prohibit faculty and staff from participating, many mathematics teachers will naturally sign up to try. .
You don’t necessarily go for the prize money. Participating in this kind of competition is tantamount to a battle of wits with the top IQ bosses. For those who are engaged in mathematics, it is quite a sense of accomplishment.
Moreover, he is not afraid of being embarrassed if he fails to enter the finals. Little Libaba will not post the list of unsuccessful candidates. As long as he does not tell anyone, no one around him will know that he has applied for it. Including Lang Jie, he also applied for the previous two years.
As long as you sign up, regardless of whether you make it to the finals or not, you will probably take the time to look at the list.
For Xingcheng, the junior high school at the beginning of Xingcheng was very conspicuous, so Lan Jie didn't even have time to talk to the teacher who came in, but immediately replied on WeChat: "Principal Zhang, it's useless just talking to me. Many mathematics teachers across Star City may be paying attention to this competition, including our school."
Then he smiled bitterly and said to his colleagues who were already sitting in their seats: "Okay, Teacher Xu, just now Principal Zhang specially told me not to mention Qiao Yu's entry into the finals to anyone. If anyone asks, just say Qiao Yu is one of us." School teacher."
"This...oh, I'm afraid that I'm going to rob someone!" They are all smart people. They reacted to the other person's suggestion and suddenly realized it.
Lan Jie smiled. Before he could speak, his phone started to vibrate again. Then he saw a message in the WeChat work group: "@Everyone, please come to the administration building within ten minutes after receiving the message. There is a meeting in conference room 607. Leave is not allowed. Please inform each other!"
Principal Zhang is really resolute enough. He has already started convening a meeting while he is still outside?!
"Come on, we have a meeting, let's go!"
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Huaxia, Xiaozhou, where the headquarters of Little Libaba is located.
Even though Qiao Yu really hoped to enter the finals without showing off and get the prize money, it was a pity that he was still noticed.
Although you don’t need to fill in your occupation when registering for Little Libaba’s math competition, you do need to fill in your birthday.
Qiao Yu, who just turned fifteen this year, is one of the youngest among all applicants this year. When he entered the finals, he naturally became the youngest finalist. Not only that, he was also ranked 285th in the preliminary round.
There are seven other fifteen-year-old junior high school students like him, but Qiao Yu's ranking is the one with the highest preliminary results among all the same age group.
These junior high school students beat out students from prestigious universities and got tickets to enter the finals. Some of them were ranked very high, which naturally attracted the attention of many big shots in the competition organizing committee.
The competition organizing committee includes not only academicians of the academies of sciences from various countries, but also professors from mathematics departments of many well-known universities.
Competitions in this type of discipline are inherently tasked with discovering talents.
In recent years, there are also some very young candidates who have entered the finals and won gold medals.
For example, Zhai Zhenyu, a student from Shuangqing City, won the gold medal in last year's Little Libaba Global Mathematics Competition when he was 17 years old, and was the only finalist with perfect scores last year.
But what is different from these junior high school students is that in 2022, when he was sixteen years old, he represented China in IMO and won a gold medal just after he was a freshman in high school.
After that, he was directly recommended to study in the School of Mathematics of Yanbei University. Although he was only seventeen years old when he participated in the Little Libaba Mathematics Competition last year, he was already a sophomore in the School of Mathematics of Yanbei University.
Although the junior high school students have not yet won the gold medal in the finals, they have not yet had time to receive systematic knowledge in advanced mathematics.
If you can achieve this ranking simply by self-study, this talent can only be said to be extremely amazing!
As Qiao Yu, who has the best grades, as well as other teenagers, the content of their answers has attracted the most attention. Many big guys have downloaded it to read it and memorized these names.
But after all, it’s just a preliminaries, with tens of thousands of people signing up, and being held online, it’s difficult to come up with some anti-cheating technical means. In many cases, it really depends on the players’ awareness.
So after the big guys said hello, Qiao Yu received another email from the Little Libaba Global Mathematics Competition Organizing Committee in his mailbox.
The general idea is to specially invite Qiao Yu to Xiaozhou Xiaolibaba headquarters to participate in the finals. If Qiao Yu agrees, he only needs to provide his and his guardian’s names and ID numbers, and the organizing committee will directly arrange the round trip and food and accommodation. .
Although the finals can also be held online, it is nothing more than turning on the camera and microphone and using technical means to invigilate the exams. However, there are cases where bosses become interested in such talented children and invite them to the headquarters for the finals.
Of course, it's not just Qiao Yu who has received such an invitation. Most of the talented young people of his age have received the same email.
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Qiao Yu, who was watching a video and trying to gain knowledge, saw a message pop up in his mailbox. He clicked on it, took a look, thought about it, walked out of the room, and asked Qiao Xi, who was watching a soap opera on the sofa, "Mom, that little The Li Group invited me to Xiaozhou to participate in the finals. Round-trip transportation and accommodation are included. Will you go?"
"Oh, when?" Qiao Xi raised her head and asked.
"The final start time is July 14th, but it may have to go one or two days earlier."
"No." Qiao Xi refused decisively.
"What? Are you not satisfied with this time? How about I discuss with them to change the time?" Qiao Yu said angrily.
"It's not like you don't know? I'm socially anxious and don't like to come into contact with unfamiliar people." Qiao Xi said confidently.
"Then why do you ask when?"
"I'm asking you when to go, but that doesn't mean I'm going. Besides, you are already fifteen years old. Do you dare not take the high-speed rail or do you have no legs? By the way, when traveling far away, you need to be more careful and less calculating. , be more sincere. If you are really scared, you can call a good old man, he may treasure you more than me now!"
Chapter completed!