Why do people generally hate Maths?

That's because you clean toilets.

Or because am doing law degree and calculus nor algebra will not be useful to me?

Why do people in the western countries generally hate Maths? I only know a minority of people who really like maths and find it interesting. But why is there such a dislike about maths in our society? Is it because people have poor numeracy skills resulting in them finding it difficult and boring?? Or is it because of people's lack of determination to practice and do well in Maths? So they give up easily. Why is it genuinely more acceptable to be bad at maths but not in some other subjects like English? And if you are good at or like maths, you are considered as a geek of some sort?

Because the people taking A-level Maths are generally stupid. Maths is just for physicists who don't want to get their hands dirty. Whenever someone tells me that they took an A-level in Maths, I immediately treat them with less respect, and tell them to **** off and do something useful with their life. I'm in total agreement with Gove's ideas of revolutionising the A-level system, making all exams linear. Combine Maths and Physics into one giant A-level so people can stop trying to specialise in something that's barely even a subject (in the case of Maths, that is). Why study A-level Maths when there are plenty of other diverse A-levels that are far more vital to the economy, like Philosophy, Media and Japanese? I sincerely hope the maths faculties at all Russell Group universities get torn down and made into parking lots.

I have no clue who that guy is, I agree he sounds arrogant.

Or because am doing law degree and calculus nor algebra will not be useful to me?

Oh, I know that almost all of maths is extremely relevant to day to day life in some form, but because most people don't actively use it in their jobs or whatever they just assume it isn't important.

Totally agree. I can't count how many times I've heard that doing maths is a 'subject for blokes' and that English or something is a 'girl's subject' is ridiculous.

I mean, I'm not going to study it at uni (I think!), but that's again probably down to society telling me that doing maths is a stupid option for a girl or whatever.

It's just so boring. You have this number, and if you do something to it it changes into another number. Yawn. As someone whose favourite subject at school was always history, with its exciting plot twists, murders, back stabbing and drama, maths by contrast was just dull and uneventful.

As one famous man once said, "A page of history is worth a book of mathematics".

Because the people taking A-level Maths are generally stupid. Maths is just for physicists who don't want to get their hands dirty. Whenever someone tells me that they took an A-level in Maths, I immediately treat them with less respect, and tell them to **** off and do something useful with their life. I'm in total agreement with Gove's ideas of revolutionising the A-level system, making all exams linear. Combine Maths and Physics into one giant A-level so people can stop trying to specialise in something that's barely even a subject (in the case of Maths, that is). Why study A-level Maths when there are plenty of other diverse A-levels that are far more vital to the economy, like Philosophy, Media and Japanese? I sincerely hope the maths faculties at all Russell Group universities get torn down and made into parking lots.

I have no clue who that guy is, I agree he sounds arrogant.

I'm guessing because

a) at school level it's ****ing boring. it's not taught in a way or to a level where you can see it's usefulness, it's all just dry, mind-numbing exercises with no obvious coherence or relevance. It's awesomeness doesn't really become apparent until at least A-level if not later. Back in school it was a chore but now I'd say it's a contender for the most important thing humans have ever developed.

b) a lot of people just have a mental laziness where they see something that looks complicated (unfamiliar mathematics can certainly just look like a bunch of ugly, confusing squiggles), they get flustered and give up too easily. I don't believe anyone's brain is just incapable of getting to a solid standard in maths though, it's only a matter of practice until it becomes automatic, I just think many do not have the patience.

Lol, u srs?

Physics is Maths' retarded cousin.

Maths isn't helpful to the economy? Apart from economics uses a mathematical systems to work? Without mathematics, most of the modern world wouldn't exist.
Not that that matters anyway, mathematics should be studied for its own right.

'Beauty is the first test - there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics'.