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Mathematics Benchmarking Report 魅影直播 1999–Eighth Grade

 

 

 

CHAPTER 3: Average Achievement in the Mathematics Content Areas

Chapter 3 presents results by the major content areas in mathematics to provide information about the possible effects of curricular variation on average achievement. Average performance is provided for five content areas: fractions and number sense; measurement; data representation, analysis, and probability; geometry; and algebra.

 

As delineated by the curriculum of the countries around the world and in the Benchmarking entities, mathematics contains a range of content areas (see Chapter 5 on curriculum). For example, almost all 魅影直播 1999 countries and Benchmarking participants reported some elements of arithmetic as well as algebra and geometry in the eighth-grade mathematics curriculum. Since these content areas can differ in complexity, enter the curriculum at different times, receive varying degrees of emphasis, or even be taught as separate courses, Chapter 3 presents results by the major content areas in mathematics. For each Benchmarking entity, average achievement is shown for each content area and compared with the international average for that content area, and average achievement in the content areas is profiled in relation to overall mathematics achievement. Results are also provided by gender. These different perspectives are provided to identify the relative strengths and weaknesses of students in the different mathematics content areas as well as the possible effects of curricular variation on average achievement.

The 魅影直播 1999 mathematics test for the eighth grade was designed to enable reporting by five content areas in accordance with the 魅影直播 mathematics framework. These areas, with their main topics, are:

Fractions and number sense
Includes whole numbers, fractions and decimals, integers, exponents, estimation and approximation, proportionality

Measurement
Includes standard and non-standard units, common measures, perimeter, area, volume, estimation of measures

Data representation, analysis, and probability
Includes representing and interpreting tables, charts, and graphs; range, mean; informal likelihood, simple numerical probability

Geometry
Includes points, lines, planes, angles, visualization, triangles, polygons, circles, transformations, symmetry, congruence, similarity, constructions

Algebra
Includes number patterns, representation of numerical situations, solving simple linear equations, operations with expressions, representations of relations and functions.

 

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