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Question: How much do you agree with these statements about your mathematics lessons? - My teacher links new lessons to what I already know.
Choices: "Agree a lot" "Agree a little" "Disagree a little" "Disagree a lot"
Data: % of "Agree a lot"
Period:
Area:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye62.0%
2 United States52.3%
3 Portugal46.7%
4 Israel44.6%
5 United Kingdom41.7%
6 Ireland41.4%
7 Hungary41.2%
8 Italy40.1%
9 Norway 37.1%
10 Finland37.0%
11 Chile35.8%
12 Australia35.7%
12 Sweden35.7%
14 New Zealand34.1%
15 Lithuania33.9%
16 France26.9%
17 Republic of Korea20.5%
18 Japan17.2%

Note
United Kingdom: England only.

No data for 20 countries.

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

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -1.176277 X +7.105
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.165
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -13169.672016 X +51043.355
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -13.302525 X +86.071
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.501
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.251

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 1.830039 X +0.903
Correlation coefficient (r)0.467
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.218

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -36.569030 X +26.905
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.585
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.342