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Question: How often do these things happen in your mathematics lessons? - My teacher has to keep telling us to follow the classroom rules.
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 Egypt61.3%
2 Kuwait47.1%
2 Malaysia47.1%
4 South Africa46.5%
5 Jordan43.3%
6 Lebanon41.6%
7 Saudi Arabia40.5%
8 Morocco 37.6%
9 Bahrain35.1%
10 Oman29.9%
11 Portugal29.2%
12 Qatar28.6%
13 Iran26.8%
14 Israel25.4%
15 Cyprus25.1%
16 Turkiye25.0%
17 Kazakhstan24.4%
18 Chile24.0%
19 Italy23.7%
20 United Arab Emirates22.8%
21 Australia22.7%
22 Georgia22.0%
23 New Zealand21.0%
24 Romania20.2%
25 Hungary19.9%
26 United Kingdom18.9%
27 Sweden17.5%
28 Republic of Korea17.4%
29 Russian Federation17.1%
30 Hong Kong, China16.7%
31 United States15.6%
32 France12.7%
33 Norway12.4%
34 Lithuania11.8%
35 Finland11.6%
36 Taiwan11.4%
37 Ireland10.1%
38 Japan2.8%

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 = -4.595645 X +7.250
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.568
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.323

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -104838.620822 X +59728.809
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.543
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.295

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -19.417749 X +83.422
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.546
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.298

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 2.845302 X +1.109
Correlation coefficient (r)0.633
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.401

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -26.597604 X +17.583
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.481
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.231