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Question: How often do these things happen in your mathematics lessons? - My teacher has to wait a long time for students to quiet down.
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 Egypt31.5%
2 South Africa29.7%
3 Morocco28.4%
4 New Zealand27.2%
5 Australia27.1%
6 Portugal26.9%
7 Lebanon26.7%
8 Bahrain26.5%
9 Chile26.4%
10 Kuwait26.3%
11 Qatar25.9%
12 Cyprus24.4%
13 Italy24.0%
14 United Kingdom22.4%
15 Jordan21.3%
16 Turkiye21.1%
17 Saudi Arabia20.2%
17 Sweden20.2%
19 United Arab Emirates19.5%
20 France19.0%
21 Hong Kong, China18.1%
22 Oman17.9%
23 Georgia17.8%
24 Iran17.3%
25 United States17.1%
26 Malaysia16.6%
27 Hungary16.4%
28 Israel15.9%
29 Norway13.1%
30 Lithuania12.7%
31 Ireland12.5%
32 Romania12.3%
33 Finland12.0%
34 Republic of Korea10.5%
35 Russian Federation10.3%
36 Taiwan8.6%
37 Kazakhstan 6.9%
38 Japan2.9%

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 = -4.162007 X +6.888
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.281
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.079

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -56298.411876 X +44269.526
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.162
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -8.071289 X +79.990
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 1.729478 X +1.505
Correlation coefficient (r)0.209
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -46.922883 X +19.861
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.463
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.214