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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:
39 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Jordan73.1%
2 Egypt70.8%
3 Georgia63.9%
4 Saudi Arabia63.6%
5 Turkiye62.0%
6 Lebanon60.3%
7 Oman59.7%
8 Morocco59.5%
9 Romania58.8%
10 Iran55.2%
11 Kuwait55.0%
12 Bahrain54.3%
13 United Arab Emirates52.9%
14 United States52.3%
15 Portugal46.7%
16 South Africa45.7%
17 Qatar45.2%
18 Israel44.6%
19 United Kingdom41.7%
20 Ireland41.4%
21 Hungary41.2%
22 Taiwan41.0%
23 Italy40.1%
24 Kazakhstan39.7%
24 Russian Federation39.7%
26 Cyprus39.4%
27 Norway37.1%
28 Finland37.0%
29 Malaysia36.8%
30 Chile35.8%
31 Australia35.7%
31 Sweden35.7%
33 Singapore34.8%
34 New Zealand34.1%
35 Lithuania33.9%
36 Hong Kong, China28.6%
37 France 26.9%
38 Republic of Korea20.5%
39 Japan17.2%

Note
United Kingdom: England only.

No data for 199 countries.

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

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -4.023399 X +7.903
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.518
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.268

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -85828.902217 X +72980.489
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.457
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.209

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -18.318519 X +86.843
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.543
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.295

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 2.703225 X +0.600
Correlation coefficient (r)0.631
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.398

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -31.916386 X +25.260
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.611
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.373