Without giving the new and old classmates too much time for pleasantries, Lan Jie almost followed a few people into the classroom.
At the first sight of Qiao Yu, Lan Jie couldn't help but slightly curl up his lips. He arrived at the classroom five minutes early today just to see if the kid was here. Seeing him now, he felt relieved.
"Ahem, not everyone is here yet, but let's introduce you first. Today we have a new student in our Olympic Competition class, Qiao Yu. Although Qiao is from the middle school division, his mathematics level is very high. If you don't understand anything in the future, you can take the chance to ask him for guidance. Of course, he is younger than you all, so in life, I hope you can all help Qiao Yu more."
Although he considered that speaking like this in class might dampen the confidence of many students in the Olympic Competition class, Lan Jie decided to give these high school kids a heads up first.
Just like that classic line in Zhou Xingxing's movie, a man who stands out, wherever he is, seems like a firefly in the dark, so prominent, so outstanding…
Mathematics is indeed the same, because normally, it also involves various trainings and exams.
Being able to enter the Olympic Competition class means the IQ is surely above average. After a few classes, everyone can gauge each other's level.
Instead of being hit at that time, it's better to give those proud guys a heads up now.
All the gazes in the classroom were focused on Qiao Yu, and most of them didn't seem very convinced.
Of course, this is also normal.
At sixteen or seventeen, it's an age of high self-regard. Being selected for the Olympic Competition class, everyone is a top student in mathematics in their class, usually scoring full marks in exams, how could they accept a middle schooler's math level being higher than theirs?
Fortunately, Qiao Yu had already gotten used to being watched the past few days. So even if all these sights were focused on him, he didn't feel uncomfortable.
On the contrary, he was in a pretty good mood at this moment.
He felt that Teacher Lan's words just now seemed like a tacit permission for him to provide paid answers for these "classmates."
While helping him advertise, saying his math level is quite high, and also saying they hope everyone can take care of him more in life. How can they take care of him in life? Of course, it can only be through wealth redistribution.
Teacher Lan is really a good person, knowing his financial difficulties and going all out to help him find money.
Qiao Yu felt he got the teacher's intention. If he kept targeting one or two people to fleece, it wouldn't be good, since they might run out of living expenses. But if the whole Olympic Competition class pooled money to buy his solutions, he could set his price a bit higher, and split among so many people, each wouldn't need to spend much, quite perfect.
Anyway, in Qiao Yu's view, this so-called Olympic Competition class is a makeshift group.
Needing to go specially to an internet cafe for such simple problems to let him help solve them, their math capability is only so-so.
When his seatmate in Class Thirteen asked for help, he still felt a bit considerate because of classmate friendships, feeling embarrassed to ask for money, but facing these unfamiliar people he had no such scruples.
Amid the whispers in the classroom, another batch of people quickly came in, and as everyone sat down, the class bell rang on time.
However, the discipline wasn't as good as usual, with several newcomers glancing backward under the people's reminders beside them.
Qiao Yu roughly counted in his heart, the Olympic Competition class showed a trend of having more boys than girls, excluding him there were only eighteen people, fifteen boys, and three girls. Unfortunately, the three girls didn't seem too eye-catching.
From this view, it seems there's some reason why Xia Keke was voted as the class belle of the Rocket Class.
"Alright, let's start class. Today a new student Qiao Yu has joined us; I introduced him earlier. For those who came later, in short, although he's still a junior high student, his mathematical skills are extremely high. I hope everyone will learn more from him.
Last class we talked about the relationship between the roots and coefficients of polynomial equations. Today, our main content is to explore several solutions to functional equations. The goal is to help everyone understand which approach to choose when encountering functional equations, through the explanation of examples.
First, let's look at this example question…"
For Lan Jie, today's class was also a new experience.
With Qiao Yu in class, he could be said to be exerting his full efforts to showcase his teaching standards.
There was no way around it, Qiao Yu sitting in the class listening was both a motivation and a challenge for Lan Jie.
The main thing is that he truly had no clear grasp of Qiao Yu's real math level.
According to Qiao Yu's own statements, he should have been self-studying some mathematics contents that only university undergraduates would encounter, like Calculus and Linear Algebra, but if it were just a general undergraduate level, he'd find the problems from Little Alibaba's math competitions very challenging.
Yet in yesterday's phone call, this kid felt the past competition questions from Little Alibaba weren't difficult, he had ideas for most of them.
He could only conclude that this was a real-world powerhouse whose true level was unknown, growing stronger when meeting stronger challenges.
So if he didn't teach well and made Qiao Yu lose interest in math, that would be a big sin.
Time flew by, having explained three problems, actually for most of the time, Lan Jie's gaze unconsciously fell on Qiao Yu.
Then felt somewhat disappointed.
With rich experience as a frontline teacher, he could distinguish if students were genuinely listening carefully or just pretending while actually zoning out.
Obviously, Qiao Yu belonged to the latter.
Though this guy was empty-handed, didn't bring any other tools, nor did he lie there sleeping, those unfocused eyes couldn't fool anyone.
But on second thought, he felt relieved.
Today's example questions, one of them was something Qiao Yu had done perfectly in his office back then. Listening to him explain it again really wasn't interesting and definitely couldn't attract his attention further.
But if he were to talk about deeper content, others wouldn't be able to keep up.
Might as well prepare training questions for this kid directly for the next Olympic Competition class, and properly test this kid's capability limits, though unfortunately today he wasn't prepared…
After explaining the two questions, Lan Jie simply called Qiao Yu's name.
"Qiao Yu."
"Huh?"
"Well, for the last example question today, how about you explain it to everyone?"
While pondering about what flavor to switch to after having big spicy strips for two consecutive days, Qiao Yu looked up at the blackboard upfront.
The blackboard was clean, with the electronic screen beside hanging a question.
"Is he thinking of helping me advertise?" Pondering this thought, Qiao Yu took another glance at those curious eyes looking at him before walking towards the platform without much hesitation.
Taking these few steps onto the platform, Qiao Yu pondered in his heart, Teacher Lan is really too honest, making him feel a little embarrassed.