Exhibit 2.16 Description of Lower Quarter TIMSS International Benchmark of Mathematics Achievement – Eighth Grade
• Lower Quarter Benchmark

Summary

Students can do basic computations with whole numbers.

The few items at this level provide some evidence that students can add, subtract, and round with whole numbers. When there are the same number of decimal places, they can subtract with multiple regrouping. Students can round whole numbers to the nearest hundred. They can read a thermometer and locate the reading in a table. Students recognize some basic notation.

 

25th Percentile: 396

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