Less of the Best: U.S. Students Outperformed in Math

On the most recent international student assessment from the OECD, the U.S. had fewer high-performing students and more low-performing students on all three subjects: reading, science and especially math. In fact, only about six percent of U.S. students were able to answer the most complex questions on the math assessment while more than a third of Singapore’s students could. Conversely, nearly a third of U.S. students scored at the lowest levels of the mathematics assessment, compared to eight percent of Singapore’s students.

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