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Trends in Mathematics Course-taking at Age 17 by Race/Ethnicity

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KEY FINDINGS
  • A greater percentage of White, Black, and Hispanic seventeen-year-olds indicated their highest course was second-year algebra in 2004 than in 1978.
  • In 2004, a higher percentage of White students took calculus (19 percent) than Black students of the same age (8 percent).
  • At 14 percent, the percentage of Hispanic students taking calculus was not measurably different from the percentage of White or Black students.

Percentage of students age 17, by race/ethnicity and highest mathematics course taken: 1978, 1999, and 2004 click for additional information

Percentage of students age 17, by race/ethnicity and highest mathematics course taken: 1978, 1999, and 2004

View data with standard errors for age 17.

* Significantly different from 2004.
1"Something else" implies that students checked a series of courses that did not follow a logical course-taking pattern.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), selected years 1978, 1999, and 2004 Long-Term Trend Mathematics Assessments.

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Last updated 08 July 2005 (HM)