I agree with you, even though math was never a problem for me. Another factor that could play into this is the learned frustration that comes with the increasi

I agree with you, even though math was never a problem for me. Another factor that could play into this is the learned frustration that comes with the increasing force of the teaching attempts. Some people might be bad at math when they're young, but then because it gets pushed on them so much they then acquire a personal dislike for the subject, so even if later they might be in a spot where they could learn the subject easily, they'll still have in their head that they suck at math and don't like it. It's a really hard thing to unteach.