Olympic School

A weekend in Toronto, Canada is no less than a day of work for every Chinese parent who hopes their child will succeed. Either father, mother, parents, or intergenerational elders have taken their children and grandchildren to various learning institutions to "recharge" their children. Among numerous educational institutions and organizations, there is a school founded by mainland Chinese that is highly favored by people, and its name is "Olympic School". Students here mainly focus on learning Olympiad mathematics, while also learning something unique. Many students who have been influenced here have been admitted to prestigious universities in the United States and Canada, such as Yale, Stanford, MIT, University of Toronto, and so on. As a result, the school gained reputation and praise, while the founder was very low-key, not ostentatious, and focused more on running the school step by step. It is precisely because of this that it has gained more respect and admiration from people. In the founder's view, everyone just needs to remember the name "Olympic School". Now let's invite readers to get to know this school together with our reporter's interview.

This school, which is oriented towards North America and founded and operated by mainland Chinese for over 6 years, is located at 200CONSUMERSRD in Toronto UNIT102NORTHYORK,M2J4R4。 The transportation is convenient and there is a large parking lot nearby, making it very convenient for learners to come here for study. The school's goals are very clear, divided into three levels:

Level 1: It is also the highest level, which cultivates athletes to represent Canada in various subject competitions of the International High School Olympiad and strive to achieve excellent results.

Level 2: Participate in various academic competitions in Canada and the United States, and achieve excellent results;

Level 3: Significantly improve students' academic performance in school.

School teaching starts with basic concepts, strengthens the training of fundamental knowledge and skills, and truly achieves mastery of learned knowledge through the explanation and practice of various question types from easy to difficult And on this basis, further strengthen thinking training, cultivate students' ability to correctly analyze and solve problems through the practice and explanation of various problem-solving techniques. At the same time, it is necessary to enable students to adapt to competition activities in various subjects and achieve excellent results.

Over the years, the school has followed this educational philosophy, step by step, and embarked on a glorious journey

In the second year of the school, 2006, Allen Jiang, a teacher from the Austrian School, led a team to Harvard University in the United States to participate in the 9th HMMT competition for middle school students On their first competition, they achieved good results of second place in geometry and fifth place in algebra The full name of the HMMT competition is HARVARD-MITMATHEMATICSTOURNAMENT. It is an annual math competition for high school students in the United States, held alternately by the world's top universities, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology The competition has a high level of skill, difficult questions, and limited time It is a great challenge for students' mathematical foundation, problem-solving speed, and reaction ability The competition is divided into four individual competitions, including algebra, geometry, combinatorics, calculus, and two team competitions, TEAM and GUTS Each team participating in the team competition is limited to 8 people Each individual can only participate in two individual events This year, the Olympic School representative team was the only foreign representative team outside of the United States in this competition.

Up to now, the Olympic School has organized student representative teams to participate in HMMT competitions for four consecutive years, with award-winning projects every year The most brilliant achievement among them was that in 2007, one student from the Olympic School won the joint first place in the geometry individual competition, ranked second in personal total score, and another student achieved excellent results of third place in calculus; There are also two people tied for fifth place in geometry At the same time, the first representative team of the Olympic School achieved excellent results, finishing 5th in the team total score competition, 4th in the GUTSA (competition) competition, and 3rd in TEAMB for the second representative team.

In addition to participating in the Harvard Massachusetts Mathematical Championship, since 2006, the Austrian university has also organized students to participate in the American Mathematical Contest (AMC) every year The full name of the AMC competition in the United States is American Mathematics Competitions. It is the largest national mathematics competition held annually in the United States Hosted by the American Mathematical Society The competition began in 1950 and has a history of 60 years to date AMC began calling it the Annual High School Mathematics Examination, later renamed as the American Mathematical Contest AMC It is the official math competition in the United States

Since the second year of the competition (2007), the performance of the Olympic school has rapidly soared The students from Aoxiao participated in AMC and ranked second in Canada in terms of group total score in 2007. They also ranked second in Canada in 2008 and first in Canada in terms of total score in 2009.

The AMC12 competition consists of 25 questions each time, with a total score of 150 points Must be completed within 75 minutes for multiple-choice questions It covers all the math content in the upper grades of middle school, but the difficulty far exceeds what is learned in the classroom The top three students from each school will receive a special certificate; All high scoring recipients will receive a certificate of honor For each participating school, they will also be ranked based on the total scores of the top three. The school with the highest ranking will be listed on the AMC website's honor list. In 2009, four students from the Olympic school received full marks from AMC.

As for various competitions in Canada, the Olympic School has achieved great success The EULER series of competitions organized by the Canadian Mathematical Competition Center, which the Austrian school participates in, has students who win first place in individual events every year. At the same time, the team's total score often ranks first or among the top in the country.

The mathematics competition organized by WATERLOO University in Canada is the official mathematics competition in Canada, and every year, students from the university also receive full or high scores.

The annual science competition for grades 9-10 in Canada, in 2009, students from the Olympic school ranked first in the country

It is worth mentioning that YANLI, a student from the Olympic school, won first place in the Canadian National Olympiad Mathematics Competition in 2007 and third place in 2008 And twice represented Canada in the International Mathematical Olympiad.

This year, 9 people from the Olympic School were selected for this year's National Olympic Competition due to their excellent performance in last year's Canadian National Open Mathematics Challenge About 90 people from across the country have been shortlisted Austrian schools account for about 1/10.

Brilliant performance has brought pleasing returns In recent years, students from Aoxiao have been admitted to top universities in the United States every year Since 2007, some classmates have been accepted by Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and Wesleyan Women's College Especially in 2009, six students were admitted to prestigious universities such as Cornell, Yale, Princeton, and Harvard in the United States In 2010, students such as Jianneng Li, Peter Cui, Jack Gao, BenHu, Michael Zhang, Wendy Sun, and Jiun yinHu were admitted to prestigious American universities such as Cornell, Berkeley, Princeton, Columbia, and Wesley Women's College.

The performance of Olympic School has been widely recognized and praised by parents in the Chinese community of Toronto Many children have come from faraway places Many of them live 100 kilometers away from the school The farthest one is from near Niagara Falls, which is about an hour and a half drive on the highway from Toronto, to attend classes at Aoxiao In the past two years, not only cities near Toronto, but also as far away as Ottawa, Vancouver, and even some Chinese Americans in the United States have been in contact with Olympic schools, hoping to establish local branches.

In 2007, Allen Jiang, a teacher from the Austrian School, was selected as the best math teacher of 2007 by the American Mathematical Society, awarded the "EDYTHMAYLIFFE" Outstanding High School Mathematics Education Award, and was admitted as a member of the National Mathematical Board of the United States.

Dr. Allen Jiang, founder of the Olympic School, is from Beijing, China Before coming to Canada, I was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Beijing University of Science and Technology Every time the Olympic school is interviewed by reporters for its outstanding competition performance, he always says meaningfully that it is the result of the students' long-term efforts and the parents' hard work The Olympic School only provides a conducive environment for everyone's growth.

Performance in the past two years

In 2010

Performance 1:

In 2010: JiannengLi,PeterCui,JackGao,BenHu,JohnLiu,MichaelZhang,WendySun,Jiun-yinHu Waiting for students to be admitted to prestigious American universities such as Cornell, Berkeley, Princeton, Columbia, and Wellesley College for Women, as well as the University of Oxford in the UK

June Guan, Sabrina Wang, Cathy Lian, Edward Sun, Peter Geng, Althea Yi, John Luo and other students have been admitted to prestigious Canadian universities Waterloo and DuoDa respectively!

Performance 2:

AltheaYi scored a perfect score of 150 in this year's AMC12 competition (out of only 5 in North America)

Performance 3:

In the Euler series of mathematics competitions held in April this year, students from Austria, including WuKvin, DuRichard, WuXiaoze, LiScarlett (G9), Zhou Yexinhao (G8), YeMatthew (G7), and Peng Jackie (G6), won first place nationwide from grades 6 to 9 (tied)

Performance 4:

Seven students including Kevin Zhou, Leo Guo, Kevin Wu, John Liu, Matthew Brennan, Fang Guo, ChanghoHan, etc. have qualified to participate in this year's USAMO National Olympic Competition in the United States (a total of 26 people from all over Canada have qualified for the competition)

In 2009

In 2009, Cindy Guo, Han Gao, David Yu, Jiun Ruey Hu, Linda Xia and other classmates were admitted to prestigious universities in the United States such as Cornell, Yale, Princeton, and Harvard!

Michael Zhang won first place in the Canadian National High School Physics Competition and represented Canada in the International Olympic Physics Competition held in Mexico in mid July 2009

David Cao won first place in the Canadian National High School Science Competition

3. John Liu participated in the Euclid competition (G12) and achieved full marks

4. Bill Wu and Melody Guan achieved full marks in the AMC10 (G10) exam

Fang Guo and Edison Chen achieved full marks in the AMC12 (G11-12) exam

Jerry Wu achieved full marks in the Euler Competition (G7)

7 students from the Olympic school have qualified for the Canadian National Olympiad Mathematics Competition due to their excellent performance in the open mathematics challenge (62 students from across the country have been shortlisted)

8. Four students from the Olympic school have qualified for the National Mathematical Olympiad in the United States (16 students from Canada have qualified)

9. More students have achieved high scores in various competitions Here, it is not possible to list them one by one

Introduction to Summer Courses

Our overall plan is to provide all children of different grades with the main courses they will be studying next semester, including English, mathematics, science, physics, chemistry, etc., to be covered in advance during the summer vacation This has two purposes: firstly, to improve the children's academic performance in the next semester, and secondly, to lay the foundation for various competitions in the next academic year after September The competition dates for the new academic year have been arranged, please refer to the competition date table below

The courses we will teach for the next academic year during the summer are basically based on the general textbooks in Ontario Our teaching content is roughly consistent with what children learn in school, but the examples and exercises we explain are more difficult and deeper than what they learn in school We attempt to strengthen the explanation of basic knowledge and training of basic skills by starting from fundamental concepts. Through the explanation and practice of various question types from easy to difficult, we truly achieve mastery of the knowledge we have learned And on this basis, further strengthen thinking training, cultivate students' ability to correctly analyze and solve problems through the practice and explanation of various problem-solving techniques In order to receive training in methods and thinking during the long learning life in the future

What? Subjects related to the school curriculum

All courses are:

Grade 12: AdvancedFunction(36hrs),Calculus(40hrs),DataManagement(40hrs).Physics,Chemistry,English.

Grade 11: Math,Physics,Chemistry,English,

Grade 10: Math,Science,English

Grade 9: Math,Science,English

Grade 8: Math,Science,English

Grade 7: Math,Science,English

(Except for 3 math courses in 12th grade, all other courses are 2 times a week, 2 hours each time. 2 months, a total of 32 hours)

Grade 6: Math

Grade 5: Math

(The above courses are conducted once a week, each lasting 2 hours, from summer until the end of December)

Explanation:

The English courses we arrange for lower grades include vocabulary, grammar, reading, and writing The content of higher grades mainly focuses on reading and writing

2. Primary school mathematics curriculum, with July December as the foundation course and January April of the following year as the competition course In the basic course stage, we will introduce speed calculation and clever calculation, and train problem-solving ideas for various types of application problems The former cultivates computational ability, while the latter cultivates the ability to analyze problems

What? Courses related to competitions

1. Web Design (G4-10) Web Design Course

2. Computer Programming (G7-12) Computer Programming Competition Class

3. COMC (G10-12) Open Mathematics Challenge Class

4. HMMT (G10-12) Harvard Massachusetts Mathematics Competition Class

Explanation:

1. The web design course lasts for 32 hours and includes HTML programming language, Dreamweaver,Photoshop,Flash.

2. Computer Programming Competition Class, with basic courses including C language programming, general algorithm design, and mathematical modeling The time was from July 2008 to February 2009 (which was the time for the Canadian National High School Computer Competition), once a week for 2 hours each time

3. The Open Mathematics Challenge Class COMC (G10-12) is a high-level mathematics competition in Canada Long preparation time is a great exercise for children's mathematical abilities and a good cultivation of study habits For those with higher grades, the award certificate from the open competition is a great qualification for applying to good universities and high scholarships Our course runs from early May to mid November (COMC's competition date is November 19th), and will provide a detailed explanation of the various contents of the Open Championship Twice a week, 2 hours each time

4. The Harvard Massachusetts Mathematics Competition Class HMMT (G10-12) was a pre exam training class for the HMMT competition held in February 2009 Unlike other competitions, this competition is divided into individual and team competitions, and requires participation on-site at Harvard University This competition not only cultivates good mathematical abilities and teamwork spirit, but also provides a great experience to participate in the math competition on-site at Harvard University This competition course is usually combined with the Mathematics Open course