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Jiang Ping, a 17-year-old fashion design student from China, was selected for the final of the 2024 Alibaba World Mathematics Competition
Chinese girl Jiang Ping, aged 17, was considered a young genius in mathematics afterIt’s a math competition — but the classification was the result of a scheme with the teacher.
One math contest, held in June this year, placed Jiang Ping in the headlines of the Chinese press.
This competition, organized by Alibaba, is international and open to participants from institutions around the world. And in the best classified only students from elite universities.
This time, this student design fashion designer, from a rural city in Jiangsu province, was not only a finalist, but also got a brilliant 12th place in the qualifiers, among hundreds of participants.
It surpassed competitors from Peking University (China), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), among other institutions.
I was already seen as the new girl genial of mathematics, a prodigy.
However, the other finalists began to distrust. They alleged that Jiang had committed “several errors apparent writing” in an online video and that “it seemed unfamiliar with mathematical expressions and symbols”, describes the .
In the qualifiers it was possible to use software of programming. In the end there was no consultation – and the publication of these results was postponed over three months. The finalists demanded that Jiang Ping’s race be publicized.
The results were announced last week: Jiang, who had placed 12th, did not even appear among the 86 finalists/winners.
Competition organizers announced that Jiang made cheating.
In this preliminary phase, the teenager did not comply with the contest rules: received help from your teacher – who was also a competitor.
The school where the young woman studies also confirmed that Jiang was helped by her teacher Wang and that Wang received a warning and was disqualified from receiving that year’s teacher awards.
On social media, there are those who criticize the student, but there are those who defend the Chinese woman – they claim that the responsibility lies with the school and the teacher.
