Percentages of Students Taught the TIMSS Mathematics Topics

The TIMSS 2015 Assessment Frameworks, Chapter 1, elaborate on the mathematics content and topic areas assessed in TIMSS 2015 at the fourth and eighth grades. Exhibits 9.3 and 9.4 present teachers’ reports about the TIMSS mathematics topics that had been taught to the students prior to or during the year of the assessment. The exhibit shows, for each country, the average percentage of students whose teachers reported that the students had been taught the topics within each content area. The topics within each content area are listed under “Topic Areas.”