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                        |           |          | Percent of | Percent of |Percent of |Percent of
                        | Average   |Percent of|  students  |  students  | students  | students
                        | percent   | students |with 2 hours|who do math | who work  |who watch
        Country         |correct on | who read |  or more   |exercises by| with math |TV 5 hours
                        |mathematics| for fun  |  homework  |themselves  |  tools    | or more
                        |   test    |every day |   daily    |   often    |  often1/  |  daily
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           1            |      2    |     3    |     4      |    5       |    6      |     7
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Populations             |           |          |            |            |           |
 (comprehensive)        |           |          |            |            |           |
                        |           |          |            |            |           |
Korea...................|   75 (0.6)|  25 (1.2)|  22 (1.1)  | 23 (1.0)   | 11 (1.0)  |   9 (0.7)
Hungary.................|   68 (0.6)|  50 (1.6)|  25 (1.4)  | 69 (1.0)   | 20 (1.0)  |  16 (1.2)
Taiwan..................|   68 (0.8)|  29 (1.3)|  31 (1.2)  | 47 (1.3)   | 30 (1.1)  |   8 (0.8)
(Former) Soviet Union2/.|   66 (1.3)|  63 (1.3)|  31 (1.3)  | 62 (1.2)   | 21 (1.0)  |  18 (0.7)
Israel3/................|   64 (0.7)|  57 (1.4)|  35 (1.5)  | 42 (1.5)   | 21 (1.2)  |  24 (1.1)
Spain4/.................|   62 (1.0)|  55 (1.4)|  29 (1.8)  | 60 (1.7)   | 23 (1.7)  |  17 (1.4)
Ireland ................|   60 (0.8)|  45 (1.4)|  18 (1.5)  | 51 (1.6)   | 14 (1.1)  |  23 (1.5)
Canada\5\ ..............|   60 (0.5)|  48 (0.8)|  13 (0.6)  | 48 (1.0)   | 13 (0.6)  |  22 (0.8)
United States...........|   58 (1.0)|  45 (1.5)|  20 (1.2)  | 44 (1.5)   | 19 (1.3)  |  26 (1.6)
Slovenia................|   56 (0.6)|  63 (1.5)|  15 (1.1)  | 61 (1.4)   | 20 (1.3)  |   8 (0.6)
                        |           |          |            |            |           |
Populations             |           |          |            |            |           |
 (with exclusions or    |           |          |            |            |           |
   low participation)   |           |          |            |            |           |
                        |           |          |            |            |           |
Italy\6\ ...............|   68 (0.9)|  51 (1.9)|  17 (1.5)  | 42 (2.1)   | 18 (1.3)  |   9 (0.8)
Scotland................|   66 (0.9)|  43 (1.6)|   4 (0.6)  | 48 (1.5)   | 13 (1.5)  |  23 (1.5)
England.................|   59 (1.9)|  51 (2.6)|   9 (1.2)  | 47 (2.8)   | 18 (1.5)  |  23 (2.0)
Portugal................|   55 (0.9)|  60 (2.2)|  20 (1.7)  | 32 (2.1)   | 17 (1.7)  |  20 (1.5)
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1 Tools are counting blocks, geometric shapes, and geometric solids.

2 Schools in 14 republics, where instruction is in Russian.

3 Schools where instruction is in Hebrew.

4 Schools where instruction is in Spanish, in all regions except Cataluna.

5 Four provinces.

6 Emilia-Romagna province only.

NOTE.--Standard errors appear in parentheses.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, International Assessment of Educational Progress, "Learning Mathematics," by Educational Testing Service. (This table was prepared February 1992.)