International Ranking Math/Science

Student Lounge International Students
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<p>TIMSS STUDY MATH & SCIENCES </p>

<p>In this statistical study, it appears that US high school students are behind roughly 15 countries as far as Maths & Science literacy (scientifically mesured through tests) including Sweden, Switzerland, New Zealand, Hungary, Russia, Czech Republic, Lituania, Cyprus, Australia, Canada, France, Iceland, Italy & Norway. Situation gets worse when it comes to higher maths.
Can anyone explain this? Schooling is expensive in the US as opposed to other countries where the public system is best.</p>

<p><a href="http://nces.ed.gov/timss/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://nces.ed.gov/timss/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Link:</p>

<p><a href="http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/twelfth/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/twelfth/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>:eek: behind new zealand??????????? People in my class still don't know how to do easy simultaneous equations (eg. x+2=2x+1) and have trouble remembering 3x5 :&lt;/p>

<p>Do you mean schooling as in college or highschools?.. Because I thought highschools in US are (in most cases) free of tution.. they just have to pay 'donation'. That's like our school and our 'donation' is like $700 -- and they don't even provide heating in the commons!! (btw, there ARE heaters. they just don't turn them on :( )</p>