Beliefs, Anxiety, and Avoiding Failure in Mathematics

Table 11

		1 km = ___ metres
Age	Sample	Percentage of correct answers	Percentage of “no attempts”
13 y	191	37.7	34.0
14 y	225	50.7	23.1
15 y	220	56.4	20.5
16–19 y	307	53.7	27.0
40–50 y	129	69.0	19.4