| Content domain | Percentile | |||||||
| Country (ordered by total score) |
Total mathematics | Number | Geometric shapes and measures | Data display | 90th | 10th | ||
| TIMSS scale average | † | † | † | † | † | † | ||
| Hong Kong SAR | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 6.0 | 4.0 | ||
| Singapore | 3.7 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 4.5 | 7.1 | ||
| Chinese Taipei | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 2.3 | ||
| Japan | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 3.0 | ||
| Kazakhstan | 7.1 | 6.6 | 7.4 | 5.8 | 7.3 | 9.1 | ||
| Russian Federation | 4.9 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 6.9 | 4.7 | ||
| England | 2.9 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 4.9 | 5.2 | ||
| Latvia | 2.3 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.9 | 2.2 | ||
| Netherlands | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 4.9 | ||
| Lithuania | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.9 | ||||
| United States | 2.4 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 4.2 | ||
| Germany | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.8 | ||
| Denmark | 2.4 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 4.2 | ||
| Australia | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 6.5 | ||
| Hungary | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 8.4 | ||
| Italy | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 5.6 | ||
| Austria | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 2.9 | ||
| Sweden | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 4.4 | ||
| Slovenia | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 3.0 | ||
| Armenia | 4.3 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 8.2 | 5.1 | ||
| Slovak Republic | 4.5 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 9.7 | ||
| Scotland | 2.2 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 3.9 | ||
| New Zealand | 2.3 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 4.8 | ||
| Czech Republic | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 6.9 | ||
| Norway | 2.5 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.3 | ||
| Ukraine | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 4.6 | ||
| Georgia | 4.2 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 5.7 | ||
| Iran, Islamic Republic of | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 2.9 | 4.4 | ||
| Algeria | 5.2 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 5.2 | 6.2 | 8.0 | ||
| Colombia | 5.0 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 5.9 | 5.2 | 4.7 | ||
| Morocco | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 6.3 | ||
| El Salvador | 4.1 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 5.0 | 5.7 | ||
| Tunisia | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 5.5 | ||
| Kuwait | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 5.5 | 5.3 | ||
| Qatar | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.8 | ||
| Yemen | 6.0 | † | † | † | 6.8 | 7.1 | ||
| † Not applicable. | ||||||||
| SOURCE: Gonzales, P., Williams, T., Jocelyn, L., Roey, S., Kastberg, D., and Brenwald, S. (2008). Highlights From TIMSS 2007: Mathematics and Science Achievement of U.S. Fourth- and Eighth-Grade Students in an International Context (NCES 2009-001), tables E-1, E-3, and E-6. Data from International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 2007. | ||||||||
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