Sentence examples for maths performance from inspiring English sources

Finland's maths performance has been tailing off since 2006.

But Britain's poor maths performance is more than a mere statistical illusion.

Peter Weir, Northern Ireland's minister for education, said the Timss results showed progress from a strong maths performance in 2011.

The 2012 Pisa results show Sweden's exam results falling abruptly across all three measures of reading, maths and science – with the country recording the largest drop in maths performance over 10 years.

Coverage of the scores by the Western news media suggested that the impressive maths performance by Vietnam, where per-capita GDP is only about $1,600, was perhaps a bit humbling for education officials in Washington, London and other self-regarding world capitals.

Both 4th and 8th graders in the US improved their maths performance between 1995 and 2007, by 11%and16%6% respectively, in addition to significantly reducing the black/white and Latino/white achievement gaps, in some instances by nearly 20% points.

The maths performances were once again dominated by a small group of countries led by Singapore in both age groups, and particularly in the 13-14 year-old agroupoup, where its score was well ahead of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan.

Maths anxiety interferes with mathematics performance and it leads to negative maths-related attitudes and self-perceptions, an avoidance of elective maths courses, and it also affects people's career opportunities and career choices [ 5].

"Labour supports academic rigour, which is why we included English and maths in performance tables and promoted an increase in the take up of separate sciences," he said.

In Experiment 3 the link between maths anxiety and performance on the CRT was investigated together with the effect of WM-load on performance on the CRT.

In summary, in Experiment 3 we tested the hypothesis that the relationship between maths anxiety and performance on the CRT was similar to the relationship between available WM capacity and performance on the CRT.