Why do the vast majority of people hate math?
150950
In the U.S....\n\nMath involves thinking, critical thinking, and most americans are lazy and hate to think.
518238
I think that what's so tough about math, and why everybody hates it so much, is that it's kind of like "gym class" for the brain.  It's hard at first, even painful if you're not used to it, but the only way for it to get better is to do a bunch of hard, boring exercises until you get used to it.  Just as exercising is hard at first, once you start building up muscles it starts to get easier.  It's almost literally the same way for your brain, except instead of "building up" your brain, you're actually creating new pathways in your brain.  It's like clearing a path through a jungle; it's really hard going at first, but it gets easier each time you go over it.\n\nYou do have to "get it" to begin with, though.  That's where your teachers come in.  If you're not understanding something, get them to help.  That's their job.  You may want to talk to your parents about it, and maybe look into getting a tutor.\n\nGood luck.  Just remember:  The second time is always easier than the first.  The third time is easier than the second.  The fourth time...
617203
I loved English, Theater, Speech and Art.  I hated Math.
362980
because people are basically stupid.
634466
I suspect you made your answer rhetorical because you don't want an answer that you do not want yourself and students to know. \n\nTechnology as we know is changing and being competent at retrieving an answer rather than applying time to a question is part of it.\n\nIn the 1970's the first affordable handheld calculators came into being. At the same time quiet discussions within the education fraternity about the breakdown in number theory(arithmetic) was all the rage. Educators resisted the introduction of calculators as a replacement for student skill but in the workplace job performance actually rose with the ability of so many people being able to make timely accurate calculations. In fact industry was the driving force for education to move with the times.\n\nToday, yes it would be hard to find anyone with the competency of someone 40 years before in mental calculations but one would be hard put not to find a calculator accessible to them and number theory(arithmetic) has made immense strides, not only with calculators but now with computers and spreadsheets and a plethora of programs that have arithmetic as a major part of their operation.
174808
It is a hard subject for some people. The thing that seems so unfair when you are a young student like you and have to take math, and don't "get" it, is that for other kids, it just comes so easily.\n\nHere's an idea for right now: take a mental step back away from math for a moment and think about a subject that you are better at or that you maybe even like, or that just comes a little easier to you.  I know there must be one because you sound like an articulate person with the ability to know your feelings and you really do express yourself vividly.  I wouldn't be surprised to hear that you are pretty good at English or Literature, Drama or Art.  Well, if that is true, be glad for it, because believe it or not, there are some people out there who can't string two words together in a row to save their lives, and/or who hate to read and write. They hate that stuff as much as you hate math, but it is worse for them because YOU can learn to do math, but it is very nearly impossible to learn to be and think creatively and artistically.\n\nThere, end of pep talk. Now for some practical advice:  you need to get some tutoring FAST.  At every school, public and private, there are several ways to get the help you need to pass math so you don't have to repeat that class. Most teachers have scheduled times every week when they are available to tutor so look into that immediately. Also--go to your guidance counselor and find the name or names of honors students who volunteer to tutor.  Call those kids and make use of their superior math skills, it is good for you and good for them.  Finally, every school has a list of people who will tutor for an hourly fee. Usually, a few times with these (often former teachers) is enough.\n\nYou really need to do this. Being frustrated just shuts the brain down, plus makes your fear of math worse. It is a vicious circle. You know very well that math is a necessity in this life, you just needed to vent.  Ok, you vented, so now knuckle down, get through these classes, pass and say good-bye to the subject forever.\n\nAnd watch "Numb3rs" on Fridays, where math seems geekily sexy and fun.
182351
There are three types of people in this world.\nOne than can do math.\nThe other that can't.
28998
Coz you think is sucks... If school sucks then why does billions and billions of people go there?\n\ntry searching the 10/90 reaction...\n\n10% is something you can not control...\n90% is how you react to something... And this is why you think school sucks...\n\nWhen you start working in the real world you would wish you were back in school...
901555
there is nothing you can do to make yourself love math..some love it some hate it..I am a math and science lover but despise english and history.  Just do you best to get thru the courses and dont choose a major in math.\n\nBest of luck to you
898785
It is the most used in daily life. Lots of algebra and other higher maths are not used daily by the ave. person but ave is.
1146563
Having taught high school mathematics, I can tell you that a higher percentage of good math students are girls at the high school level. But when it comes time to choosing a college major, the girls avoid math related subjects mostly because math requires a lot of isolated work. \n\nGirls by nature are more social creatures than guys and tend to be turned off by isolation. This explains why very few girls are in advanced college math even though girls have the aptitude for math. Think about it--would most girls want to do math homework with a bunch of geeks or study business doing group projects with the jocks and frat boys? Get the idea?\n\nTV star Danica McKellar, who has a graduate degree in math from UCLA, explains why she prefers the glamour of being a tv star instead of being a research mathematician at her website below. She still likes to solve math problems at her site showing that even good looking babes can do math.
241911
I love math!\n\nFirstly, it takes a lot less memorization than most subjects. Sure you have to remember a few formulas, and trig values, but compare that to the massive amounts of facts in history or law and bow down to the simplicity of math ;)\n\nSecondly, I'm good at it. That's a good enough reason.\n\nI also like how some problems look ridiculously simple, but solving them is really hard, sometimes near impossible (Goldbach's conjecture, for example, can be stated in one simple sentence, and a middle schooler could understand it. But it hasn't been proven for hundreds of years).\n\nAnd yeah, I hate tests and homework like any sane student. If that's how they teach math at a young age here, we'll have to surrender to India and China soon. The way that I got interested in math was through the use of math games (those rubber band thingies with the geoboard thingy!) and competitions. \n\nI remember in 5th grade, every week, we had a multiplication table contest. Whoever could fill out the table (from 1 to 12, I think) fastest would win some sort of prize. Do that nowadays, and you'll have parents whining to the teachers about how their kid always loses.
1013156
We all have our likes and dislikes.  Maybe math is not your strongest subject.  I am positive you are good at something else.
44472
I think most Math teachers show students how to do problems not why they're done that way.Once that building block isn't there they struggle especially in higher Math where your expected to be at a certain level of knowledge.
227753
You are not alone..I see math as a hobby:)
278864
well, usually math formulas have two faults:\n\n- each of them is able to answer only one kind of question\n- when you ask them the right question, they're usually able to give you only one answer, and always the same.\n\nSo, generally speaking, all math formulas don't seem to be quite intelligent...\n\nanyway, to answer to your question, the more stupid one is the reflexive law of equivalence:\n\nA = A for every A\n\nThis is one of the things that make people of intellect stay far from math studies...\n\n---\n\nInstead, if you mean stupid tricks about non-mathematical subjects which involve fake math formulas, you can browse the resolved questions to find some.
1182284
It's not that mathematics always works, it doesn't. You just study the part that has been shown to work, not the part where it fails.\n\nFor example, mathematicians spent years trying to solve the problem of squaring the circle. That is , given a circle, they wanted to be able to construct a square that had the same area as the circle (using compass and straightedge).  It can't be done. \n\nThey also spent years trying to find a method for trisecting angles. Again they failed because it can't be done. There are some angles that you can't trisect.\n\nSo for everything that you have studied that always works, there are dozens of things that you don't study because they are only true some of the time.\n\nOh, and in spite of all the fools who keep posting the "proof", 1= 0 is never true.