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Question: How often do these things happen in your mathematics lessons? - Students interrupt the teacher.
Choices: "Every or almost every lesson" "About half the lessons" "Some lessons" "Never"
Data: % of "Every or almost every lesson"
Period:
Area:
38 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia29.7%
2 South Africa28.2%
3 New Zealand27.0%
4 Cyprus26.8%
5 Lebanon25.9%
6 Chile25.3%
7 Kuwait24.3%
7 United Kingdom24.3%
9 Portugal24.2%
10 Bahrain23.8%
11 Qatar23.3%
12 Morocco23.0%
13 Egypt22.9%
14 Italy20.9%
14 United States20.9%
16 Saudi Arabia19.4%
16 Sweden19.4%
18 Jordan18.3%
19 Hong Kong, China17.8%
20 United Arab Emirates17.6%
21 France16.7%
22 Ireland15.1%
22 Romania15.1%
24 Oman14.8%
25 Israel14.7%
26 Turkiye14.3%
27 Georgia14.0%
28 Norway13.1%
29 Hungary12.9%
30 Taiwan12.3%
31 Iran11.5%
32 Malaysia10.9%
33 Finland10.6%
34 Republic of Korea10.1%
35 Russian Federation8.8%
36 Lithuania8.4%
37 Kazakhstan5.2%
38 Japan 2.7%

Note
United Kingdom: England only.

No data for 200 countries.

Source
TIMSS 2019 > International Database > TIMSS 2019 Data Almanacs - Grade 8

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -1.986953 X +6.438
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 24621.387129 X +29834.463
Correlation coefficient (r)0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 4.362829 X +76.887
Correlation coefficient (r)0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 0.351857 X +1.773
Correlation coefficient (r)0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -28.758988 X +14.226
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.340
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.116