31.   On the fourth-grade math test, Holliday exceeded the state average in the percentage of students scoring at the proficient and advanced levels.

32.   One just wanted a place to cry because she had flunked a math test.

33.   One section of the report focuses on the two math tests and raises questions about why scores on one are rising far more quickly than on the other.

34.   Politicians, and nonpoliticians seeking to become politicians, orate on a topic that has not personally concerned them since they last took a math test.

35.   Results of a math test given periodically to students across the country show fourth and eighth graders made modest steady gains while the scores of twelfth graders declined slightly.

36.   Sibley said the Mauro plan, heavy on education, fails the simple math test.

37.   She was concerned that she may have received a low score on the recently administered citywide reading and math tests.

38.   Some raising of standards in the city schools is definitely necessary given the poor performance of students on reading, writing and math tests.

39.   State education officials also released the results Thursday of a fourth-grade math test and an eighth-grade reading test.

40.   The annual New York State test results released Thursday showed that eighth-graders in other parts of the state fared better on the math test.