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Science 12 March 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5408, pp. 1616 - 1617
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5408.1616
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MATH EDUCATION:
Videotapes Expose Classroom Faults

Steve Olson

Test scores have documented how poorly many U.S. students do in math compared to their counterparts around the world. But why are their scores so low? A new analysis just released by the U.S. Department of Education suggests that what happens in the classroom--what students are asked to do and how the material is taught--could provide at least part of the answer. And the data, collected as part of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study or TIMSS, are in living color--derived from videotapes of 231 eighth-grade mathematics classes in the United States, Japan, and Germany.

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