Upon his return the Navy gave him a math test.

"Remember those math tests we took the first week of school?"

Plus, somewhere in the back of her mind, she seemed to remember something about a math test.

The success rate was slightly lower on the new math test.

But they did not have to pass, or even take, the math tests.

They went through a similar process in 1993, when the current math test was introduced, he said.

Among 38 schools, only in four did 10 percent or more of the students pass the reading, writing and math tests.

The score on the math test was 520, of a possible 800, up two points from the previous year.

Then, both groups were asked to predict their performance on a second math test, with 100 questions and no answer key.

America's high school students place almost dead last in international math tests.