Should primary school students learn Olympiad math or not?

It is not recommended for elementary school students to learn Olympiad mathematics.

Mathematics learning in primary school is the most basic calculation problem of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

If the foundation itself is not good, and you want to use the Olympiad to pull it up, it not only increases the child's learning pressure, reduces the motivation to learn, and even makes the child himself not know what he is learning.

Proper study of the Primary School Olympiad can have the following benefits:

1. Promote the overall improvement of school performance and cultivate good thinking habits;

2. To enable students to gain psychological advantages and cultivate self-confidence;

3. It is conducive to the development of students' intelligence;

4. Mathematics is the foundation of science, and learning Olympiad mathematics is very beneficial for this student to learn physics and chemistry after entering junior high school (many key middle schools recruit students who are good at Olympiad mathematics for this reason).

5. The enrollment of many key middle schools depends on whether the student's Olympiad results are excellent.

However, for a student who is struggling to learn the content of school textbooks, regardless of the current situation, the greed for more and the fastest will not only fail to learn, but may also bring negative psychological pressure; If you know that you are not suitable for learning Olympiad mathematics and do it reluctantly, you will lose your self-confidence because of it, and finally even hate learning.

Olympiad learning is a kind of intellectual game, you should do what you can, and never treat it as a burden.

It is useful, no matter whether you learn the Olympiad or not, those questions in school are very simple, and the score will generally be higher.

If you are interested in mathematics, please go to learn the Olympiad, if you are not interested, you will sit in vain, and learning the Olympiad is very beneficial to future science studies and helps brain development.

In general, not all children are suitable for learning Olympiad, it is not an easy subject, and it is not a skill worth trying for everyone.

Generally speaking, the students who can participate in the competition are carefully selected by the teacher, and only those who have very strong math ability can be selected, and then represent the school or city to compete, which requires a little talent.

Most parents let their children learn the Olympiad just to improve their math ability, and they don't think about the stage of participating in the competition and then winning the award, so they don't care what their children can get in the end.

Of course, there are also a large number of parents who register their children for classes at will without knowing what the Olympiad is.

Because they "heard that learning Olympiad mathematics can improve their grades", just because their friends' children are in school, they want their own children to learn too.

In fact, on the question of whether primary school students should learn Olympiad mathematics, Wang Dianjun, the principal of Tsinghua University High School, has long expressed his opinion, he said in the program "Teacher Please": Olympiad mathematics is very different from ordinary mathematics.

In the program, Principal Wang mentioned that his daughter had also learned Olympiad mathematics, but she didn't even come up with many problems, let alone a child who was still in school age, so he quickly stopped his daughter's Olympiad class.

Many parents let their children learn the Olympiad, just for the sake of the phrase "other people's children have it, my children must also have it", and they don't understand what the meaning behind the Olympiad is really there.

Therefore, if parents just follow the trend and let their children learn Olympiad, this is not necessary, there is no need to waste their children's time, let alone waste their own money, learning Olympiad is not so simple.