Beliefs, Anxiety, and Avoiding Failure in Mathematics

Table 2

		9 = — – 4
Age	Sample	Percentage of correct answers	Percentage of “no attempts”
8 y	225	36.9	22.2
10 y	220	72.3	9.5
12 y	173	71.1	9.2
14 y	225	81.3	5.3
40–49 y	129	82.9	4.7