Ninth-graders' Mathematics Coursetaking, Motivations, and Educational Plans (NCES 2015-990)

This Statistics in Brief uses data from NCES' High School Longitudinal Study (HSLS:2009) to examine why high school students take mathematics, and how their motivations vary depending on their plans for the year after high school. For students who have the same after-high-school plans, the report also examines how students from different socio-economic backgrounds compare in terms of their mathematics coursetaking and their motivations for course taking.