Opportunities to learn Mathematics in Brazil, Chile and the United States
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Learning Opportunity, Pisa, Teaching of Mathematics, Curriculum.Abstract
This paper uses data from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 of Brazil, Chile and the United States to analyze the opportunity of students from different socioeconomic backgrounds to learn Mathematics, assessed by the exposure to concepts and problems of this discipline. The Brazilian students present major disadvantages compared to the others in terms of curriculum coverage and even the richest students have a low probability of curriculum exposure compared with their peers from other countries. In addition, the likelihood of never having been exposed to mathematical concepts and problems increases as the concepts become more complex, and as inequality increases between the poorest and the richest. Therefore, not only do we observe large inequalities between rich and poor regarding their opportunities to learn Mathematics, but also a low curriculum exposure of Brazilian students as a whole.Downloads
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