COMPETENCY GROUPS IN THE MATHEMATICS BENCHMARK TEST

COMPETENCY GROUP

97/98

98/99

99/00

00/01

2001/2002

97-2002

1

ALGEBRA - Concepts

57%

66%

68%

74%

67%

66%

2

ALGEBRA - Applications

57%

60%

68%

67%

63%

62%

3

ALGEBRA - Graphs

61%

75%

71%

72%

72%

71%

4

AXIOMATIC SYSTEMS

57%

63%

60%

69%

63%

63%

5

CALCULUS

30%

43%

42%

40%

41%

40%

6

DISCRETE MATH.

34%

59%

61%

63%

56%

55%

7

EXPONENTS/LOGARITHMS

36%

42%

63%

46%

45%

45%

8

GEOMETRY - Synthetic

50%

62%

65%

69%

62%

62%

9

GEOMETRY - Analytic

52%

60%

59%

56%

58%

58%

10

GEOMETRY - Coordinates

53%

61%

68%

66%

62%

62%

11

GEOMETRY - Transformations

45%

53%

61%

66%

56%

56%

12

LANGUAGE OF MATH

55%

63%

63%

69%

62%

62%

13

PROBABILITY

46%

49%

53%

55%

51%

51%

14

PROBLEM SOLVING

69%

77%

69%

67%

72%

72%

15

RATIONAL FUNCTIONS

44%

58%

59%

57%

56%

55%

16

REASONING

59%

63%

68%

70%

64%

65%

17

SEQUENCES/SERIES

45%

54%

56%

58%

54%

53%

18

STATISTICS

32%

51%

54%

56%

49%

49%

19

TEACHING STANDARDS

55%

62%

60%

59%

58%

59%

20

TRIGONOMETRY

45%

63%

69%

67%

61%

61%