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Performance of U.S. Students on International Math Tests

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Table 4 Performance of U.S. Students on International Math Tests
	TIMSS Grade 4	TIMSS Grade 8	PISA (Age 15)
Statistically above the U.S.	Belgium Hong Kong Hungary Japan Latvia Netherlands Russia	Belgium Hong Kong Hungary Japan Netherlands	Australia Belgium Japan Netherlands New Zealand Norway
Statistically the same as the U.S.		Australia Latvia Russia	Hungary Latvia
Statistically below the U.S.	Australia Italy New Zealand Norway	Italy New Zealand Norway	Italy Russia
Source: American Institutes for Research, 2005

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