Chapter 9: Drawing Pie in the Opposite Direction

"You have made great progress during this period. I can also see your determination for the math league, especially since you got the only full score in the class today."

Wang Qingtao walked along the corridor to the comprehensive office building, and never stopped praising Xu Yuan along the way.

Xu Yuan just followed behind obediently without responding.

But I was quite happy in my heart.

No matter how great his achievements were in his previous life, he is currently still a student who has just entered his third year of high school.

How could I not want to hear the teacher's praise?

Besides, he had great respect for Wang Qingtao.

But at this moment, Wang Qingtao suddenly stopped and turned around, meeting his gaze and asked seriously: "But tell me the truth, did you go to the provincial capital for tutoring during the summer vacation?"

Xu Yuan almost bumped into the other person. Faced with this question that came out without any warning, he didn't have time to think and blurted out two words subconsciously.

"No ah."

As a child from an ordinary family, paying a teacher from the provincial capital for tutoring is undoubtedly a luxury.

There is only one place where most people acquire knowledge.

That's school.

"In that case, it seems that you have some talent in mathematics. It's my fault that I didn't discover it earlier."

When Wang Qingtao heard Xu Yuan's answer, a hint of disappointment flashed across his face, but he quickly hid it, responded with a rather self-blaming tone, then turned around and continued walking towards the office.

Compared with Xu Yuan's talent in mathematics, he actually wished he had received tutoring from a teacher in the provincial capital.

Because this way there is still some hope in participating in the league.

The most important factor that can differentiate the performance of the math league is the supplementary test at the end. The geometry, algebra, and number theory involved are all knowledge beyond the high school textbooks. If you don't learn them systematically, no matter how talented you are, you will be powerless.

Seeing that Xu Yuan’s math grades are very good now, I’m afraid it would be good enough if he could get the same ranking as Xie Qisheng by then.

Thinking about these things with a depressed mood, Wang Qingtao didn't say anything else afterwards.

Naturally, Xu Yuan would not say anything about this.

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Soon the two came to the teacher's office, and Wang Qingtao leaned over and took out some materials from his seat.

He turned around and handed them all to Xu Yuan.

"These are math competition materials and classic problem sets. Take them home and study them carefully."

"With the knowledge learned in last year's competition class, it should be no problem for you to understand it."

"If you encounter something you don't understand, you can come to my office to find me, but I'm afraid the help I can give you is limited, so you'd better be mentally prepared."

Xu Yuan listened to everything Wang Qingtao said, lowered his eyes and looked at the intermediate mathematics question set in his hand, and felt a complicated emotion spreading in his heart.

Deeply moved.

I was just thinking about buying competition materials this morning when my head teacher brought me what I needed.

Save him a lot of trouble.

You have to know that this time he took the initiative to sign up for the league, so strictly speaking, Wang Qingtao didn't need to do anything at all.

But the other party still gave him support to the best of his ability.

As these thoughts emerged in his mind, Xu Yuan suddenly raised his head and looked at Wang Qingtao, and said very solemnly: "Thank you, head teacher. I promise to get good results in this league and enter the provincial team."

"Just try your best and don't leave yourself with any regrets. If there's nothing else, go back first."

Upon hearing this, Wang Qingtao sat down on the chair and waved his hand in response.

Obviously, he didn't take Xu Yuan's promise seriously.

The best result in the school is only third prize, the provincial team is too far away.

Xu Yuan didn't care whether Wang Qingtao believed what he said.

As long as he believes it.

He nodded at the other person, then turned and left.

After coming out of the office building, he did not return to the classroom, but went directly to the cafeteria with the documents. It was not long before the end of the get out of class, so it was better to have lunch first instead of running back and forth later. He was the only student in the empty cafeteria, which was not common.

Only when the last class is physical education do we have the chance to have a relaxing meal.

Of course, there are no physical education classes in the third year of high school.

Not long after.

After Xu Yuan finished his meal, he saw senior high school students coming one after another. He stood up, picked up the materials next to him, and went back to the classroom against the flow of people.

……

"Finally, I can start a new round of review."

In the quiet classroom, Xu Yuan pulled out a stool and sat down. While sighing quietly, he first opened the materials for the intermediate mathematics competition.

Focus and look carefully.

Normally speaking, he is relatively more familiar with the content of the league's extra test.

Especially algebra.

I did a lot of research when I was preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination in my previous life.

However, he did not directly practice the real competition questions, but instead consolidated the knowledge points.

Otherwise, it is easy to fall into habitual thinking when solving problems and subconsciously use advanced mathematical theories to solve them.

If you are not careful, you may fall into misunderstandings.

Anyway, with his super high efficiency in deep learning state, it won’t take long.

When Xu Yuan was highly focused, he had no idea how much time had passed without looking at the time. It was not until he vaguely heard someone calling him that he took the initiative to break away from this state.

"Xu Yuan."

……

He raised his eyes and saw that it was Xie Qisheng. He straightened his body and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Sorry to interrupt your reading."

"I want to see your math test paper. Didn't your homeroom teacher ask us to check our wrong answers this morning?" Xie Qisheng stated his purpose with a hint of embarrassment on his face.

He subconsciously raised his hand to adjust his glasses.

In the past, it was always other people who came to borrow his test papers, but this experience was indeed quite novel.

Xu Yuan did not hesitate. He first looked inside his desk, then found the test paper from Yang Bin's seat and handed it over.

"for you."

Xie Qisheng quickly reached out to take it, and stood in place to check the several big questions at the back of the test paper.

At this time, Xu Yuan also noticed that many people in the class had returned, and most of them were studying their test papers.

After about a few minutes, Xie Qisheng's voice was heard again.

"Why didn't I think of using this method at the time?"

If you listen carefully, you can feel the regret he expressed. Perhaps it was because of this mistake that he missed the chance to get full marks.

He sighed and put the test paper on the table, but noticed from the corner of his eye that what Xu Yuan was looking at looked familiar.

I asked casually, "Are you looking at math competition materials?"

"Yes, my homeroom teacher gave it to me at noon." Xu Yuan nodded and answered truthfully.

The other party also participated in the mathematics league last year and will definitely be familiar with this information.

Perhaps it was because some memories were brought back to him, but Xie Qisheng's expression suddenly became complicated.

He thought for a moment and took a deep breath before continuing.

"You have made great progress during this period, but I still don't recommend you to take the league too seriously."

"I was full of confidence when I participated in the league last year, but the difficulty of the additional test questions poured cold water on me. I couldn't compare with other contestants just by relying on what I learned in the competition class at school."

At the end, his words were full of self-mockery, as if he didn't want to see Xu Yuan follow in his footsteps.

(End of this chapter)