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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 Morocco 23.0%
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 Japan2.7%

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 = -1.067786 X +6.279
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 29317.291247 X +28376.622
Correlation coefficient (r)0.081
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 1.298666 X +78.176
Correlation coefficient (r)0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 0.219806 X +1.805
Correlation coefficient (r)0.026
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -38.254479 X +17.492
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.376
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141