Beliefs, Anxiety, and Avoiding Failure in Mathematics

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					</td><td align="center"> </td><td align="center"> </td><td align="center"> </td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left"><u>+54</u></td><td align="center"> </td><td align="center"> </td><td align="center"> </td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">Age</td><td align="center">Sample</td><td align="center">Percentage of correct answers</td><td align="center">Percentage of  “no attempts’’</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">  8 y</td><td align="center">225</td><td align="center">71.6</td><td align="center">7.6</td></tr><tr><td align="left">10 y</td><td align="center">220</td><td align="center">92.7</td><td align="center">1.0</td></tr><tr><td align="left">13 y</td><td align="center">191</td><td align="center">92.7</td><td align="center">1.6</td></tr><tr><td align="left">14 y</td><td align="center">225</td><td align="center">92.4</td><td align="center">0.9</td></tr><tr><td align="left">40–49 y</td><td align="center">129</td><td align="center">94.6</td><td align="center">0.8</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

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