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                        |           |          | Percent of |Percent of| Percent of | Percent of | Percent of
                        |  Average  |Percent of|  students  | students | students   |  students  | students
        Country         |  percent  | students |with 2 hours|who watch |who do math |who take a  |with positive
                        |correct on | who read |  or more   |TV 5 hours|exercises by|math quiz at| attitudes
                        |mathematics| for fun  |  homework  | or more  |themselves  | least once |  towards
                        |   test    |every day |   daily    |  daily   | every day  |  a week    |mathematics
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           1            |      2    |     3    |     4      |     5    |     6      |     7      |     8
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Populations             |           |          |            |          |            |            |
 (comprehensive)        |           |          |            |          |            |            |
                        |           |          |            |          |            |            |
Korea...................|   73 (0.6)|  11 (0.8)|  41 (1.7)  |  11 (0.9)|  17 (1.0)  |  28 (1.9)  |  71 (1.3)
Taiwan..................|   73 (0.7)|  19 (1.2)|  41 (1.3)  |  10 (0.7)|  32 (1.1)  |  87 (1.1)  |  79 (0.9)
Switzerland\1\..........|   71 (1.3)|  51 (1.1)|  20 (1.3)  |   7 (0.8)|  47 (1.9)  |  40 (2.5)  |  85 (1.1)
(Former) Soviet Union\2\|   70 (1.0)|  47 (1.3)|  52 (1.6)  |  17 (1.0)|  40 (1.7)  |  52 (1.5)  |  76 (1.8)
Hungary.................|   68 (0.8)|  44 (1.2)|  58 (1.3)  |  13 (1.0)|  37 (1.6)  |  17 (1.3)  |  85 (0.8)
France..................|   64 (0.8)|  40 (1.2)|  55 (1.6)  |   5 (0.7)| ---   ---  |  64 (1.3)  |  81 (1.0)
Israel\3\...............|   63 (0.8)|  40 (1.7)|  50 (1.9)  |  20 (1.2)|  12 (1.1)  |  36 (2.2)  |  90 (0.8)
Canada\4\...............|   62 (0.6)|  38 (0.9)|  27 (1.0)  |  14 (0.7)|  50 (1.1)  |  53 (0.9)  |  94 (0.4)
Scotland................|   61 (0.9)|  38 (1.5)|  14 (1.1)  |  24 (1.3)|  48 (2.1)  |  17 (1.3)  |  91 (0.7)
Ireland ................|   61 (0.9)|  41 (1.3)|  63 (1.9)  |   9 (0.9)|  54 (1.5)  |  19 (1.5)  |  88 (1.0)
Slovenia................|   57 (0.8)|  42 (1.2)|  28 (1.7)  |   4 (0.5)|  41 (1.4)  |  28 (1.5)  |  83 (1.0)
Spain\5\................|   55 (0.8)|  36 (1.3)|  64 (1.5)  |  10 (0.8)|  39 (1.6)  |  31 (1.7)  |  89 (1.0)
United States...........|   55 (1.0)|  28 (1.3)|  29 (1.8)  |  20 (1.7)|  50 (2.7)  |  68 (2.1)  |  90 (1.1)
Jordan..................|   40 (1.0)|  24 (1.3)|  56 (2.0)  |   7 (0.8)|  34 (1.4)  |  68 (1.5)  |  77 (1.5)
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                        |           |          |            |          |            |            |
Populations             |           |          |            |          |            |            |
 (with exclusions or    |           |          |            |          |            |            |
 low participation)     |           |          |            |          |            |            |
                        |           |          |            |          |            |            |
China\6\................|   80 (1.0)|  28 (1.5)|  44 (1.8)  |   7 (0.5)|  78 (1.6)  |  63 (2.2)  |  79 (2.1)
Italy\7\................|   64 (0.9)|  47 (1.3)|  79 (1.3)  |   5 (0.7)|  10 (0.7)  |  19 (1.6)  |  86 (0.9)
England.................|   61 (2.2)|  41 (3.2)|  33 (2.8)  |  14 (2.2)|  21 (2.5)  |  28 (5.8)  |  91 (1.2)
Portugal................|   48 (0.8)|  44 (1.8)|  30 (1.6)  |  11 (1.0)|  30 (1.6)  |  21 (1.8)  |  84 (1.1)
Brazil, Sao Paulo.......|   37 (0.8)|  33 (1.5)|  45 (1.9)  |  19 (1.2)|  35 (1.4)  |  44 (1.5)  |  83 (1.0)
Brazil, Fortaleza.......|   32 (0.6)|  41 (1.3)|  48 (1.8)  |  21 (1.5)|  31 (1.6)  |  56 (1.9)  |  86 (1.1)
Mozambique, Maputo and  |           |          |            |          |            |            |
 Beira..................|   28 (0.3)|  41 (1.6)|  42 (1.8)  |  20 (1.2)|  62 (1.6)  |  94 (1.0)  |  88 (1.0)
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1 Fifteen cantons.

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

3 Schools where instruction is in Hebrew.

4 Nine provinces.

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

6 Twenty provinces and independent cities.

7 Emilia-Romagna province only.

---Data not available.

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.)