|
此文章由 limit-2010 原创或转贴,不代表本站立场和观点,版权归 oursteps.com.au 和作者 limit-2010 所有!转贴必须注明作者、出处和本声明,并保持内容完整
Australia has won its first gold medal in Athens. In an olympics of the mind rather than the body, held in the Greek capital last week, Sydney schoolboy Ivan Guo beat hundreds of the world's most mathematically gifted students to bring home gold. Other members of Australia's team won a silver and two bronze medals at the International Mathematics Olympiad, in which 486 students from 85 countries competed.
Ivan, who is in year 12 at Sydney Boys High, said socialising and sightseeing in the Olympic city made the event a lot of fun, despite the intense competition. "We got to meet lots of people from around the world with similar interests," he said.
In a mini-practice run for next month's big event, the Olympiad began with an opening ceremony featuring Greek culture and a parade of national teams.
The students had to sit two exams, each lasting 4 hours and consisting of three problems. To win gold, they had to get a mark of 32 or more out of a possible 42. A team trainer, Angelo di Pasquale, of the Australian Mathematics Trust, said the questions were getting harder each year.
"It's like the sports Olympics. The bar is being raised all the time," said Dr di Pasquale, who helped set and mark the exams and competed in 1990 and 1991.
Ivan, 17, who did not speak any English when he migrated here from China at age 11, said maths was his favourite subject
来源:http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/20/1090089159446.html
6年之内,就看lz家的牛娃的了 |
|