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Table 406. Average mathematics scores at the end of secondary school, by sex, and average time spent studying mathematics out of school, by country: 1995

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                         |      Average score in mathematics |                  Amount of daily out-of-school study time in mathematics
                         |___________________________________|______________________________________________________________________________________
                         |           |           |           |                       |                       |                       |
                         |           |           |           |   Less than 1 hour    |   One to two hours    |   Three or more hours |
                         |Mathematics|Males      |Females    |_______________________|_______________________|_______________________|      Average
         Country         |Overall    |           |           |   Percent|Mean score  |   Percent |Mean score |    Percent|Mean score |     hours\1\
_________________________|___________|___________|___________|__________|____________|___________|___________|___________|___________|_____________
            1            |    2      |     3     |    4      |    5     |    6       |    7      |    8      |    9      |    10     |       11
_________________________|___________|___________|___________|__________|____________|___________|___________|___________|___________|_____________
Australia\2\.............|  522 (9.3)|  540 (10.3|  510 (9.3)|  59 (2.2)|  521 (8.3) |   36 (2.2)|  557 (10.2|    5 (0.8)|  534 (13.4|   1.0 (0.04)
Austria\2\...............|  518 (5.3)|  545 (7.2)|  503 (5.5)|  77 (1.7)|  526 (5.8) |   19 (1.6)|  533 (9.4)|    4 (0.8)|  502 (13.7|   0.6 (0.04)
Canada\2\ ...............|  519 (2.8)|  537 (3.8)|  504 (3.5)|  56 (2.1)|  539 (5.1) |   38 (1.9)|  547 (5.0)|    7 (1.0)|  526 (14.6|   1.1 (0.05)
Cyprus\2\ ...............|  446 (2.5)|  454 (4.9)|  439 (3.7)|  63 (2.1)|  435 (4.3) |   29 (1.8)|  471 (4.8)|    8 (1.3)|  451 (9.0)|   1.0 (0.05)
Czech Republic ..........|  466 (12.3|  488 (11.3|  443 (16.8|  92 (1.5)|  464 (13.8)|    8 (1.4)|  482 (17.8|    0 (0.2)|  ---  --- |   0.4 (0.03)
                         |           |           |           |          |            |           |           |           |           |
Denmark\2\ ..............|  547 (3.3)|  575 (4.0)|  523 (4.0)|  68 (2.0)|  571 (4.9) |   28 (1.6)|  563 (4.7)|    4 (0.7)|  562 (11.9|   0.9 (0.04)
France\2\ ...............|  523 (5.1)|  544 (5.6)|  506 (5.3)|  59 (2.3)|  517 (5.1) |   35 (2.3)|  539 (6.7)|    5 (0.7)|  505 (14.7|   1.0 (0.04)
Germany\2\ ..............|  495 (5.9)|  509 (8.7)|  480 (8.8)| ---  --- |  ---   --- |  ---  --- |  ---  --- |  ---  --- |  ---  --- |   ---   ---
Hungary...............   |  483 (3.2)|  485 (4.9)|  481 (4.8)|  74 (0.9)|  480 (3.2) |   24 (0.8)|  496 (5.5)|    2 (0.2)|  ---  --- |   0.7 (0.02)
Iceland\2\ ..............|  534 (2.0)|  558 (3.4)|  514 (2.2)|  79 (1.1)|  553 (3.2) |   19 (1.1)|  542 (7.0)|    2 (0.4)|  ---  --- |   0.7 (0.02)
                         |           |           |           |          |            |           |           |           |           |
Italy\2\.................|  476 (5.5)|  490 (7.4)|  464 (6.0)|  55 (2.6)|  479 (6.3) |   40 (2.2)|  486 (7.2)|    5 (0.9)|  477 (11.2|   1.0 (0.05)
Lithuania\2\ ............|  469 (6.1)|  485 (7.3)|  461 (7.7)|  67 (1.8)|  472 (5.8) |   29 (1.7)|  480 (5.2)|    4 (0.5)|  484 (11.5|   0.8 (0.03)
Netherlands\2\  .........|  560 (4.7)|  585 (5.6)|  533 (5.9)|  82 (1.7)|  606 (6.2) |   16 (1.6)|  581 (11.1|    1 (0.3)|  ---  --- |   0.7 (0.03)
New Zealand .............|  522 (4.5)|  536 (4.9)|  507 (6.2)|  75 (1.4)|  544 (6.1) |   23 (1.4)|  552 (5.9)|    2 (0.3)|  ---  --- |   0.7 (0.03)
Norway\2\ ...............|  528 (4.1)|  555 (5.3)|  501 (4.8)|  85 (1.4)|  541 (5.1) |   14 (1.3)|  558 (9.5)|    1 (0.3)|  ---  --- |   0.5 (0.03)
                         |           |           |           |          |            |           |           |           |           |
Russian Federation\2\ ...|  471 (6.2)|  488 (6.5)|  460 (6.6)|  56 (2.0)|  463 (5.9) |   33 (1.4)|  484 (7.5)|   11 (1.2)|  494 (8.1)|   1.2 (0.06)
Slovenia\2\..............|  512 (8.3)|  535 (12.7|  490 (8.0)|  72 (2.7)|  521 (9.4) |   25 (2.6)|  518 (9.5)|    2 (0.6)|  ---  --- |   0.7 (0.05)
South Africa\2\ .........|  356 (8.3)|  365 (9.3)|  348 (10.8|  33 (1.8)|  394 (17.1)|   51 (1.8)|  375 (10.9|   17 (1.2)|  344 (7.2)|   1.7 (0.05)
Sweden ..................|  552 (4.3)|  573 (5.9)|  531 (3.9)|  90 (0.9)|  579 (5.4) |    9 (0.9)|  580 (7.8)|    1 (0.2)|  ---  --- |   0.4 (0.02)
Switzerland .............|  540 (5.8)|  555 (6.4)|  522 (7.4)|  67 (1.6)|  569 (4.9) |   28 (1.3)|  550 (5.6)|    5 (0.9)|  522 (10.6|   0.9 (0.04)
United States\2\ ........|  461 (3.2)|  466 (4.1)|  456 (3.6)|  76 (1.5)|  475 (3.8) |   22 (1.5)|  486 (5.9)|    2 (0.2)|  ---  --- |   0.7 (0.02)
_________________________|___________|___________|___________|__________|____________|___________|___________|___________|___________|_____________

---Not available.
\1\Average hours based on: No time = 0; Less than 1 hour = .5; 1-2 hours = 1.5; 3-5 hours = 4; More than 5 hours = 7.
\2\Countries not meeting all International Association for the Evaluation of Education Achievement's sampling specifications.

NOTE: End of secondary school is equivalent to 12th-grade in the U.S. and a few other countries, but ranges from 9th- to 14th-grade among the survey countries. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. Standard errors appear in parentheses.

SOURCE: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, Mathematics and Science Achievement in the Final Year of Secondary School: IEA's Third International Mathematics and Science Study, 1998, by Ina V.S. Mullis et. al. Copyright @ 1998 Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. (This table was prepared October 1998.)


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