What is it about Maths and Physics that scares people?

I am ok with physics but maths scares me, I have no interested in it so I find it hard, with physics is Iam studying somthing principle then I must have some interest in it so the maths will make sense then.

Certainly the on my course the one module most people failed was purely maths and physics based.

I think your brain either thinks that way or it dosn't.

Other modules had quite a bit of physics in it but the maths wasn't anything advanced.

You know what I meant, it does not change my qualities as a person. If you can like me without knowing I do a physics degree, then why should finding out suddenly change that. Physics is just what I do, its a job if you like, admittedly its a "job" I enjoy, but I hope that I am more than just a physicist.

Its rather like would you want to be judged for being a tax inspector or a traffic warden? I'm sure there are some very nice tax inspectors out there... yet people dismiss them because of what they do.

What puzzles me more is why people seem more surprised that I'm doing maths and physics because I'm female. That's what I don't understand!

Ummm, I hate to be pedantic, but they're physicists, not physicians (who are medics, fully qualified that is). Of course sometimes you have to wonder if they are from another planet, lol.

"Maths teachers can do English, but English teachers can't do Maths".
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How strange. I thoroughly enjoy maths and I find physics a really interesting subject. I took Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Biology at A Level (done because the academic year starts in January here). However, I applied to read Law at university.

I can see what you mean, Firebird; it's really annoying when people say your subject is boring just because they don't understand it (I get that to a certain extent).
On the other hand, I find attitudes like your maths teacher's as irritating as the OP and you find the anti-maths and physics thing (I can't believe people would stop talking to someone because they study physics!). As I said above, the fact that someone can read and write doesn't make them automatically good at English or able to write a book; there's sometimes a tendency assume this because the language of arts subjects (unless it's foreign, of course) is more generally known and less specialised than that of science, and that therefore anyone can do it, whereas, the same as with sceience, there's more to it than that.

Because Maths and Physics are very male dominated fields

That's because they removed almost all the maths from A Level physics to make it accessible to people not doing maths.

It's not really strange; I know a few people who have done that (But with F.Maths instead of Biology).

I think it would have been stranger if you had done Theatre stud, Art and English lit alvls. and then had gone on to do theoretical physics at uni