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Figure 16-1. Percentage of fourth-grade students who liked learning mathematics, based on the Students Like Learning Mathematics index, by sex and country: 2011
* p < .05. Percentage is significantly different from the percentage of students of the same sex in the United States.
NOTE: The difference between female and male students is statistically significant in all countries except the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom (England and Northern Ireland), and the United States. The Students Like Learning Mathematics index is based on fourth-grade students' reports of the extent of their agreement with the following statements: (1) I enjoy learning mathematics; (2) I wish I did not have to study mathematics; (3) Mathematics is boring; (4) I learn many interesting things in mathematics; and (5) I like mathematics. The index places students into one of three categories (like learning mathematics, somewhat like learning mathematics, and do not liking learning mathematics), but this indicator presents data only for students in the highest category of the index: like learning mathematics. Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Indonesia, and Mexico did not participate in TIMSS 2011 at the fourth grade.
SOURCE: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 2011.
