Beliefs, Anxiety, and Avoiding Failure in Mathematics

Table 5

		534 + 185 = 185 + __
Age	Sample	Percentage of correct answers	Percentage of “no attempts”
10 y	220	52.7	12.3
13 y	191	70.7	12.7
15 y	220	82.3	10.0
40–49 y	129	77.5	15.5