Table 141. | Percent of public high school graduates taking selected mathematics and science courses in high school, by sex and race/ethnicity: 1982 to 2000 |
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | 2000 | | | | | |_________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | Sex | Race/ethnicity Courses | | | | | | |_______________________|_____________________________________________________________ (Carnegie credits) |1982 |1987 |1990 |1994 |1998 | Total | Male | Femal| White,| Black,| Hispanic | Asian/ | American | | | | | | | | | Hispanic | Hispanic | | Pacific | Indian/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Islander | Alaska | | | | | | | | | | | | | Native ________________________________|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|____________|____________ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 ________________________________|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|____________|____________ Mathematics\1\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Any mathematics (1.0) ..........|98.5 |99.0 |99.9 |99.8 |99.8 |99.8 (0.04)|99.8 (0.08)|99.9 (0.04)|99.8 (0.06)|99.8 (0.09)|99.8 (0.07)|100.0 (0.02)|100.0 # Algebra I (1.0)\2\ ...........|55.2 |58.8 |63.7 |65.8 |62.8 |61.7 (1.66)|60.0 (1.62)|63.4 (1.82)|60.5 (1.95)|66.5 (3.25)|69.5 (2.14)| 48.8 (2.47)| 65.2 (5.43) Geometry (1.0) ...............|47.1 |58.6 |63.2 |70.0 |75.1 |78.3 (1.09)|74.9 (1.33)|81.4 (1.02)|79.2 (1.23)|77.9 (1.95)|72.8 (3.23)| 80.6 (2.16)| 65.0 (6.18) Algebra II (0.5) \3\ .........|39.9 |49.0 |52.8 |61.1 |61.7 |67.8 (1.43)|64.8 (1.45)|70.5 (1.68)|68.9 (1.51)|64.8 (2.30)|59.8 (5.17)| 80.4 (1.92)| 60.3 (5.51) Trigonometry (0.5) ...........| 8.1 |11.5 | 9.6 |11.7 | 8.9 | 7.5 (1.31)| 7.3 (1.30)| 7.7 (1.37)| 8.5 (1.62)| 4.1 (1.02)| 2.9 (0.77)| 14.5 (5.33)| 4.3 (2.07) Analysis/pre-calculus (0.5)...| 6.2 |12.8 |13.3 |17.3 |23.1 |26.7 (1.40)|25.4 (1.39)|27.9 (1.61)|28.2 (1.74)|16.2 (1.53)|19.3 (2.97)| 48.8 (2.68)| 12.6 (2.80) Statistics/probability (0.5) .| 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.7 | 5.7 (0.86)| 5.8 (0.97)| 5.6 (0.86)| 6.1 (1.00)| 3.8 (1.25)| 2.3 (0.53)| 11.5 (2.45)| 2.1 (1.10) Calculus (1.0) ...............| 5.0 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.3 |11.0 |11.6 (0.73)|12.2 (0.79)|11.1 (0.77)|12.5 (0.77)| 4.7 (0.55)| 5.6 (0.87)| 30.8 (5.07)| 2.4 (0.90) AP calculus (1.0) ............| 1.6 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 7.9 (0.58)| 8.5 (0.71)| 7.3 (0.57)| 8.4 (0.62)| 2.6 (0.41)| 3.6 (0.68)| 24.0 (4.20)| 1.7 (0.70) | | | | | | | | | | | | | Science | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Any science (1.0) ..............|96.4 |97.8 |99.3 |99.5 |99.5 |99.5 (0.11)|99.3 (0.17)|99.7 (0.08)|99.6 (0.13)|99.5 (0.16)|99.1 (0.34)| 99.7 (0.18)| 99.6 (0.33) Biology (1.0) ................|77.4 |86.0 |91.0 |93.2 |92.7 |91.2 (1.00)|89.0 (0.32)|93.3 (0.80)|91.8 (1.15)|92.3 (1.02)|89.7 (2.70)| 88.3 (2.70)| 88.4 (2.88) AP/honors biology (1.0) ......|10.0 | 9.4 |10.1 |11.9 |16.2 |16.3 (1.46)|13.8 (1.41)|18.5 (1.63)|17.9 (1.78)|10.8 (1.39)|10.8 (1.36)| 25.9 (4.17)| 8.0 (3.06) Chemistry (1.0) ..............|32.1 |44.2 |48.9 |55.8 |60.4 |62.0 (1.47)|58.0 (1.42)|65.7 (1.74)|63.0 (1.67)|59.9 (2.40)|52.4 (4.08)| 75.4 (2.59)| 43.6 (4.03) AP/honors chemistry (1.0) ....| 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 5.8 (0.85)| 5.8 (0.91)| 5.7 (0.83)| 6.1 (1.19)| 2.8 (0.46)| 3.4 (1.28)| 16.2 (1.44)| 1.7 (1.20) Physics (1.0) ................|15.0 |20.0 |21.6 |24.5 |28.8 |31.4 (1.16)|34.2 (1.29)|29.0 (1.22)|32.4 (1.34)|25.2 (1.98)|23.2 (2.32)| 54.0 (2.68)| 17.5 (4.07) AP/honors physics (1.0) ......| 1.2 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.9 (0.61)| 5.4 (0.94)| 2.5 (0.38)| 4.0 (0.78)| 2.2 (0.78)| 2.0 (0.70)| 11.0 (1.91)| 0.5 (0.37) Engineering (1.0) ............| 1.2 | 2.6 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 6.7 | 3.9 (0.91)| 4.3 (1.04)| 3.5 (0.85)| 4.2 (1.14)| 2.7 (0.78)| 2.4 (0.85)| 3.1 (0.95)| 1.8 (1.36) Astronomy (0.5) ..............| 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.8 (0.59)| 3.0 (0.65)| 2.6 (0.57)| 2.8 (0.68)| 1.8 (0.54)| 3.7 (1.54)| 2.0 (0.69)| 3.8 (1.67) Geology/earth science (0.5) ..|13.6 |13.4 |24.7 |22.9 |20.7 |17.4 (1.86)|18.4 (1.98)|16.6 (1.82)|17.5 (2.34)|18.8 (2.59)|15.9 (1.88)| 11.1 (1.50)| 16.0 (3.06) Biology and chemistry (2.0) ..|29.3 |41.4 |47.5 |53.7 |59.0 |59.4 (1.49)|54.5 (1.49)|63.8 (1.74)|60.3 (1.72)|58.0 (2.31)|50.4 (4.27)| 71.1 (2.67)| 39.4 (3.81) Biology, chemistry, and | | | | | | | | | | | | | physics (3.0) ...............|11.2 |16.6 |18.8 |21.4 |25.4 |25.1 (1.09)|26.4 (1.23)|24.0 (1.13)|25.7 (1.20)|20.1 (1.75)|17.6 (2.20)| 47.2 (2.53)| 11.9 (3.29) ________________________________|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|____________|____________ |
# Rounds to 0.00. \1\These data only report the percentage of students who earned credit in each mathematics course while in high school and do not count those students who took these courses prior to entering high school. \2\Excludes prealgebra. \3\Includes algebra/trigonometry and algebra/geometry. NOTE: Data differ slightly from figures appearing in other NCES reports because of differences in taxonomies and case exclusion criteria. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "High School and Beyond," First Followup survey; "1990 High School Transcript Study," and "High School Transcript Study," various years. (This table was prepared November 2002.) |