U.S. Drops Out of Global Math Test

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This test has been administered a few times over the past 10 years.

Has anyone here ever taken this?

The only reason I'm asking is cause the questions I looked at online were pretty much a joke. I really really suck at math and I got 4 out of 5 right.

Anyways, there is def. a lot to be said about the educational system in America compared to the rest of the world and it's problems, but only 4000 schools would be participating in this study? That's less schools that participate in FIRST.

Just some food for thought.

I think kids in school these days are subject to way too many tests as it is. SAT's, PSAT's, CAPT (in CT), Entrance Exams for higher education, etc, etc...
I'm not for lightening the school work load on kids but there has to be a limit of how much we can increase it and still get good results out of the schools and based on the sample questions that I looked at it seems a waste of time to add this one test to the mix.

I didn't even see countries like England, Japan, China, etc.. etc.. who always claim to be higher on the education scale than America.
If this test doesn't prove that fact, then which one does?

I'm indifferent on this issue if it doesn't get funding to happen this year.

It seems to me there are a multitude of ways to get statistics based on educational performance, and this is just one more that really isn't needed at it's low participation level of 4000.