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英国数学奥林匹克竞赛

（BMO）是什么？

Recently, the results of various international mathematics competitions have been announced one after another. The students at Guangzhou Foreign Language School ISA Wenhua IB Diploma Programme once again made great achievements. Among them, in the 2022 American Mathematics Competition (AMC), they won 1 Honor Roll of Distinction, 2 Certificate of Distinction and 6 Higher than the AIME Cutoff. In the British Mathematical Olympiad (BMO), they won 1 Certificate of Distinction,1 Certificate of Merit and 1 invitation to sit the BMO Round 2!

Winner of AMC Certificate of Distinction

In preparing for the AMC, my teachers and classmates have given me a lot of help. The inquiry-based classes of IB mathematics cultivate our thinking ability. The special mathematics competition classes provided by the school give us targeted training. After class, students discuss mathematics topics with each other and learn from each other. All of these brought great benefits to my learning of mathematics and preparation for the competition.

Winner of AMC Certificate of Distinction

I think there is a big difference between the AMC and the mathematics I am learning now. In my opinion, AMC seems to pay more attention to problem solving skills in mathematics, while the IB mathematics I am studying focuses on the understanding of mathematics.

While preparing for AMC, it is inevitable that I would encounter some problems that I cannot solve. When this happened, I would first ask my classmates for help. I think this is a good way, because it becomes easy to produce new problem-solving solutions while discussing with classmates.

At the same time, I would like to thank our teacher for opening the competition training class during the CCA time, explaining the questions, and answering our questions.

Winner of Honor Roll of Distinction 

I think the IB mathematics is different from the mathematics I have known before. It pays more attention to logical thinking and solutions by steps, which is very helpful for the cultivation of logical thinking skills. In the AMC, the whole test paper gave me the feeling that I was very rushed, and the difficulty of the test paper was graded. Participants need to divide their own answering time according to their ability. In the preparation and practice, we all encounter difficult questions. I would find teachers to answer my questions after class and during the competition training class, and the students also arrange time to share their experience in solving mathematics problems. I hope that more students who are interested in mathematics will participate in this competition in the future, and they will always have a passion for mathematics.

Students Sharing:

Winner of BMO Certificate of Distinction

This is my first time participating in BMO, but I already knew about this competition before I took the IB programme. As the highest-level mathematics competition in the UK, it is a highly valuable one. It adopts the form of free response questions and tests the students' complete thoughts on answering the questions. It is a pity for me failing to enter Round 2 by one point. But I have also gained a lot. I hope that I will continue to work hard to enter BMO Round 2 and win some awards next year. 

Winner of BMO Certificate of Merit

I am honoured to have achieved a good result in the BMO Round 1.

The overall difficulty of this competition is relatively high. There are only few questions, but the difficulty of each question is very high. It takes a lot of time to think before answering the questions. The teachers gave me a lot of help when I was preparing for the BMO, such as providing special competition training classes, etc.

While learning mathematics for the competition, I think the most important thing is not to learn a lot of new concepts, but to consolidate the concepts already learned by practicing questions, because if you cannot skilfully apply the new concepts to the questions, it is still useless even if you learn many new concepts.

Congratulations to the above award-winning students! Today's results are rewards for and after hard work, and today's honour is the motivation for further learning. We hope that more students will actively participate in the competition, forge ahead and achieve excellent results!