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Although the global epidemic outbreak in these two days has taken everyone's attention away, but the 2020 edition The release of the RD stage is still worth a headline. Especially this year, MIT gave Deng Mingyang from the High School Attached to the National People's Congress the only domestic high school offer. Why does MIT favor Deng Mingyang? What kind of parent and family education environment has shaped such an outstanding teenager? Let's take a look!
March 14th is an annual holiday celebrating the mathematical constant π. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued an offer for the 2020 RD admission. The domestic high school only received one, and it fell in the famous "Good God" in the High School Attached to the National People's University. The 16-year-old boy Deng Mingyang of , nicknamed "Little Good"-a mathematics Olympiad in Beijing, almost It is the existence that no one knows that no one knows.
At 7 pm on March 14, Deng Mingyang’s mother published a blog "The Gift of πday" , and posted a picture: on the screen two beavers are holding a banner of congratulations, and a little beaver in the middle is holding a CLASS The small flag of OF 2024. Behind them are the main building of MIT and the words MIT. This low-key celebration of my son's MIT offer.
360-degree no dead ends
satisfies all my illusions about "excellence"
Deng Mingyang has been learning Mathematical Olympiad since the first and second grades of elementary school, and began to participate in various math competitions in the third grade, and he has emerged in the competition. Now the 16-year-old Deng Mingyang is amazingly talented, and his resume is so good that he has no temper at all.-
won the silver medal in the final of the National Information Olympiad in the second year of the junior high school, won the gold medal in the third year of the junior high school, and beat a lot of high school seniors/seniors. .
won the gold medal of the National Mathematical Olympiad at the age of 15, entered the national training team, and obtained the qualification of Tsinghua;
the 60th International Mathematical Olympiad , the Chinese team won the championship after four years, all 6 players won gold, Deng Mingyang is The youngest member of the Chinese team;
was suspended for half a year due to the competition, and then returned to school for the exam. Deng Mingyang still entered the top ten of the grade. (Know, this is the top ten in the middle school attached to the National People's University!)
If it weren't for being too young to be selected for the information training team, Deng Mingyang would become an unrivaled presence in the training team of two disciplines at the same time. In addition to various competitions, Deng Mingyang has a wide range of interests, playing Go, playing bridge, and designing computer games. He also set up a programming studio on campus. Yes, when is studying two competitions at the same time and maintaining the top ten grades, Deng Mingyang can guarantee to go to bed before ten o'clock every day.
won the 60th International Mathematical Olympiad. The shortest (the youngest) in the photo is Deng Mingyang.
Zhihu has a question: "How do you evaluate Deng Mingyang of the High School Attached to the National People's University?" The answer under is like this-
" Sometimes I have an illusion, thinking that no one can surpass me in all abilities, but when I know DMY, I understand that this is just an illusion. Where is he than me? Probably I can only say What came out of the first question of the first day of the first stage of the training team last year, I calculated it in the examination room, but he did not finish the calculation, to satisfy my poor self-esteem.""
Deng Mingyang took history as an elective course this semester , His classmates all sighed: "I really admire it. I am already eligible for a pass, but I still come to steadily supplement my liberal arts literacy."
, who has won numerous awards on the field, has a very good reputation in the school and has zero anonymity. Negative Ratings! Classmates broke the news on the Internet that he was humble and interesting, not that kind of weird "nerd". Knowing that the last person who claimed to be Deng Mingyang's three-year junior high school classmate and high school neighboring classmates wrote:
"Although I don't have much contact with him, I can still feel his temperament. Deng Mingyang treats people with respect and respect, and is courteous to everyone. . And he has a kind of stability that is beyond ordinary people, not publicity. MIT may be just his starting point, and in time, it will become bigDevice! "
Deng Mingyang’s parents, did they save the universe in their previous life? What kind of education made him such an excellent student as
? What kind of family do they come from? What kind of parents?
According to legend, Deng Mingyang’s father was from Fudan. Undergraduate, graduated from Peking University with a Ph.D. Mother is also a researcher. Both parents of have strong genes, but these are not enough. If
compares a family to a team, the division of labor in Deng Mingyang's family is probably like this. What learns depends on Deng Mingyang Oneself; father is responsible for ideological work, similar to the role of encouragement teacher and political commissar; mother is responsible for information collection and logistical support.
Deng Mingyang's achievements are not only based on talent, he and his family education still have a lot of things worth thinking about.
1 Use internal drive to learn
Deng Mingyang started to win prizes in elementary school and got soft. Many people guess that there must be a forced "Mother Haidian" behind such a cow baby. It is true that Deng Mingyang's subject competition started very early, but good mother It is written in the blog:
"Children's interest is first. He has been sensitive to numbers since he was a child and found it fun to do problems, and regarded learning mathematics as a kind of fun. When he was young, the adults did not deliberately guide, nor did he enroll in many extracurricular mathematics classes. He fully exercised his self-study ability, respected his interest and let the flow go. "
After winning the gold in the 60th International Mathematical Olympiad , Deng Mingyang accepted an interview with the media. He said that he participated in the competition out of his own interest. He wanted to play, and there was no special reason. "I think Olympiad It’s much more interesting than what I learned in class. There are more routines, such as multiplication tables in class. I prefer those topics that require some thinking. "
Deng Mingyang started programming when he was in the sixth grade, and the reason was "interesting." He said that programming and mathematics are closely related, and both need algorithms; informatics and mathematics are also closely related, requiring thinking and using more thinking. I think it’s “interesting.” The reason for
is “interesting.” I have also heard Harvard’s youngest Chinese professor Yin Xiti. He said in an interview, “I’m not interested in winning awards. I do research only because it’s interesting. One day I feel that what I do is boring, and I will switch to something else.
Another great god-level character, Yin Xi
We divide learning motivation into three categories: The first is for the needs of others, such as meeting the expectations of parents and teachers; the second is to achieve their own achievements , in order to gain Award, or be among the best in the class; the third motivation that can stimulate the learning potential the most: thirst for knowledge , feel that learning itself is an interesting thing.
In other words, , children who are "self-inflicted" have better academic performance and a stronger driving force for continuous learning. Deng Mingyang’s parents fully supported him, encouraged him, and provided him with strong logistical support after discovering this interest of the child.
2, fewer questions, more thinking
driving force and learning method are parallel "two carriages". An important reason why Deng Mingyang has won numerous awards is that he is very good at learning, has systematic arrangements, plans, and goals. The intensity of two competitions at the same time, if there is no good learning method, 48 hours a day is not enough.
Deng Mingyang is not a family of brushing questions. He does exercises for about half an hour every day. Before the competition, he only does two to three questions. "maintains the feel of the test and does not brush the questions in a special system." Until now, he can basically go to bed before ten o'clock every day. How to learn mathematics well
? The word Deng Mingyang said most is "think more."
Mathematics competition is essentially a competition of thinking. Even if you have never participated in a math competition, you can basically understand the topics of the International Olympiad, but whether it can be done depends on whether you can think of it.
"Exercising thinking ability requires a person to think more and think deeply in life. This is not only to do questions, but also to be good at asking questions. Seeing a thing or model, such as a game, is a question worth exploring, even if It doesn’t matter if it can’t be solved, the most important thing is the thinking process."
Deng Mingyang’s father said: "ChildThe child’s own effort accounts for 90%, and the parent’s role does not exceed 10%. " also liked to tutor their children at first, but later found out that it was easy to get angry and the child would lose interest. Parents still focused on cultivating habits at a young age. If they are not good at tutoring homework, don’t mix things up.
Developed into the current "family division of labor": learning things are left to the school and teachers, because they are more professional. After participating in the competition, Deng Mingyang can make friends with various "great gods" and seniors, and the help provided by these people is more important .
parents stepped back in time, and the children went further.
3, youthful
under the arena, like all parents, Deng Mingyang’s parents also have a headache for their sons who love to use mobile phones and play games. Daddy Deng said "Don’t get me wrong that Xueba is a group of distressed students. In fact, they are energetic and active thinking, which makes the teacher a headache.
They will lock the classroom door because they want to play cards inside; they will wrap the teacher’s harsh words into emojis and forward them in the WeChat group but forget that the teacher is also in the group; they appreciate people with outstanding brainpower and are confident of themselves He is also one of them, but his catchphrase is "I'm too food"; after training, I have a dinner together, after a big meal, I go to the movies or play in a secret room to escape. They are happy and simple young people, very cute and very sunny. "
We can categorize Deng Mingyang's achievements in mathematics and information as "talent", but he has not only won the first prize in mathematics since he was a child, but also won the comprehensive first prize every year. He is very strong in language, mathematics and English. It’s no longer a simple talent that can be attributed.
The children in most of our families are "Puwa". The example of learning God cannot be imitated, but will you really get nothing from it? Children have genetics, personality, and more Uncontrollable factors such as the difficulty of cooperating with parents, as parents, can we start from ourselves and adjust our parenting behavior?
