针对本次活动，初中八年级数学备课组积极召开会议，要求所有任课老师认真准备，充分调动学生积极性，并做好学生的动员和复习工作，同时，鼓励教师自己紧扣教材内容编写竞赛试题，考查学生的计算能力。

译：To prepare this contest, 8th grade math teachers actively and positively hold a meeting to discuss key preparations, requiring all math teachers to fully prepare related teaching materials, motivate students willingly and actively participate and review their test questions by themselves. Teachers should also build contest questions based on textbook while checking students’ weakness.

赛前，同学们做好了充分的准备，以饱满的精神，有条不紊地进行训练。赛时，他们紧张有序、聚精会神、缜密思考，运用快速的计算，充分展示出自己的数学实力。

译：Before the contest, students prepared themselves with steady training. During the contest, students focused their mind to answer questions nervously, orderly, quickly and carefully.

同学们个个胸有成竹，正襟危坐，他们专注地盯着每一道题，心无旁骛地运算着……数学素养奔腾于笔尖，计算技能洋洋洒洒倾泻于纸上。

译：They were answering each question with full confidence and focused on every question.......... Their mathematical achievements are showed at the tip of their pen, and their arithmetic ability poured out on the paper.