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3. The Bible says very little about mathematics, where we do worse than in science.
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 11:08 AM
Dec 2016

Last edited Wed Dec 7, 2016, 11:47 AM - Edit history (1)

Across the globe, American students were outperformed by their counterparts in 36 countries in math; 18 countries in science and 14 countries in reading.


Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-12-math-teens-science-flat.html#jCp

When looking at a comparable sample of countries that participated in the PISA exam in both 2012 (the last time the test was administered) and 2015, the US ranking fell to 35th from 28th in math.


http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-criticism-of-us-public-schools-pisa-results-2016-12

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