Andreas Schleicher presents at the OECD webinar Improving Mathematics Performance: Unpacking PISA’s Role on 31 October 2023.

1. Mathematics in PISA
Webinar 31 October 2023
Andreas Schleicher
27 October 2023, 02:00 PM (Paris time)
OECD Directorate for Education and Skills

2. What is PISA?
PISA
assesses 15-year-old
students’ abilities and
knowledge in
mathematics, reading and science

3. PISA participants
Around 690,000 15-year-old students in
81 countries and economies took PISA 2022
PISA Newcomer: El Salvador, Jamaica, Mongolia, the Palestinian Authority and Uzbekistan

4. PISA 2022 release
The results of the PISA 2022 will be released on
5 December 2023, 11:00am Paris time
The State of Learning and Equity in Education Learning During – and From – Disruption
PISA 2022 Volume I PISA 2022 Volume II

5. Mathematics in PISA
Mathematical literacy is an individual’s capacity to reason
mathematically and to formulate, employ, and interpret
mathematics to solve problems in a variety of real-world
contexts. It includes concepts, procedures, facts and tools to
describe, explain and predict phenomena. It assists individuals
to know the role that mathematics plays in the world and to
make the well-founded judgments and decisions needed by
constructive, engaged and reflective 21st century citizens

6. Contexts
• Personal
• Occupational
• Societal
• Scientific
21st Century
Skills
• critical thinking;
• creativity;
• research and inquiry;
• self-direction, initiative and
persistence;
• information use;
• systems thinking;
• communication; and
• reflection
Employ
Mathematical
reasoning
Mathematical reasoning (both deductive and
inductive) involves evaluating situations,
selecting strategies, drawing logical
conclusions, developing and describing
solutions, and recognising how those
solutions can be applied
Quantity: number sense and estimation;
quantification of attributes, objects, relationships,
situations and entities in the world; understanding
various representations of those quantifications,
and judging interpretations and arguments based
on quantity
Uncertainty and data: recognising the place of
variation in the real world, including having a
sense of the quantification of that variation, and
acknowledging its uncertainty and error in related
inferences. It also includes forming, interpreting
and evaluating conclusions drawn in situations
where uncertainty is present.
Change and relationships: understanding
fundamental types of change and recognising
when they occur in order to use suitable
mathematical models to describe and predict
change. Includes appropriate functions and
equations/inequalities as well as creating,
interpreting and translating among symbolic
and graphical representations of relationships
Space and shape: patterns; properties
of objects; spatial visualisations;
positions and orientations;
representations of objects; decoding
and encoding of visual information;
navigation and dynamic interaction
with real shapes as well as
representations, movement,
displacement, and the ability to
anticipate actions in space

7. Mathematics in PISA
Mathematical literacy is an individual’s capacity to reason
mathematically and to formulate, employ, and interpret
mathematics to solve problems in a variety of real-world
contexts. It includes concepts, procedures, facts and tools to
describe, explain and predict phenomena. It assists individuals
to know the role that mathematics plays in the world and to
make the well-founded judgments and decisions needed by
constructive, engaged and reflective 21st century citizens

8. Thank you
Find out more about our work at
https://www.oecd.org/pisa/