History PlayingWith / EverybodyHatesMathematics

* '''Played For Laughs''': Being an {{Acceptable Target|s}}, Math is the [[ButtMonkey butt of many jokes]].

* '''Reconstructed''': The [[AppliedMathematics simpler and more practical aspects of math]] that are enough to keep civilization functioning are loved again, while teachers this time try to innovate more ways to make math a fun and interesting game, but still the more complex and useless yet boring are AcceptableTargets.

** Math doesn't receive outright hate, but it is still an {{Acceptable Target|s}}.

* '''Downplayed''': Math doesn't receive outright hate, but it is still an {{Acceptable Target|s}}.

** That isn't a math nerd, that's just a kid trying to get on his math teacher's good side.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Being an AcceptableTarget, Math is the [[ButtMonkey butt of many jokes]].

** As a person tries to solve a math problem for ten seconds, the earth explodes from sheer hatred.
* '''Downplayed''': Math doesn't receive outright hate, but it is still an AcceptableTarget.

** As Math progresses to the more advanced, it has become too complex and too [[MindRape mind-rapingly]] [[EldritchAbomination eldritch]] to the point of [[ADegreeInUseless uselessness]]. And it's forced onto our curriculum.
** The way Math is taught in schools is dull, boring, unrewarding, and constantly emphasized fear of failure over curiosity.
** Any lesson that emphasizes fear of failure and is forced without any rewards will reinforce negative emotions. Try forcing somebody to level grind a role-playing game forever, against his will. He will end up bored and, if forced further, hateful of said game. Math is similar, in that teachers emphasize boredom, fear of failure and lack of realism rather than treating math for what it ought to be taught as: a cognitive puzzle for the curious, with realistic benefits.

** WritersCannotDoMath

** Someone cursed Math to bring down human civilization.

** "They gave me math, [[WeaksauceWeakness my one major weakness]]"
** Because Everybody hates mathematics, [[ADegreeInUseless Liberal Arts colleges]] attract more students (and thus cash) by advertising "Now with less math!"

** "Even though it's hard, I love math and [[TheDeterminator I shall conquer my fear of it, no matter what!]]"
** "[[Film/BatmanBegins Become your fear]]"

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* '''Double Subverted''': Then it goes back to being hated by everyone.

* '''Averted''': Some people hate math, others love it.

** [[TooKinkyToTorture Masochists]] attend math class.

** OnceUponATime, an EldritchAbomination came to Earth and MindRaped mankind. Its form happens to resemble a variety of complex mathematical equations, instilling the fear of math into the majority of the human subconscious.

* '''Subverted''': Math is initially hated, but is later appreciated for what it is.

* '''Exaggerated UpToEleven''':

* '''Deconstructed''': Math is hated so much, people erase math from their brains, but since even the very first civilizations needed math to build civilization (such as Ancient Babylonia and Egypt), the loss of math leads to the downfall of human civilization.
* '''Reconstructed''': The [[AppliedMathematics simpler and more practical aspects of math]] that are enough to keep civilization functioning are loved again, while teachers this time try to innovate more ways to make math a fun and interesting game, but still the more complex and useless yet boring are AcceptableTargets.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Alice, a previously intelligent student, develops a fear and hatred of Math which causes her to fail school, emotionally harming everyone around her and forcing her into a life of regret and angst.

** People hate math so much that when they solve a problem, they are left traumatized.
* '''Exaggerated UpToEleven''':

** Solving a single math problem makes a person GoMadFromTheRevelation.

** The way Math is taught in schools is dull, boring and unrewarding.

** OnceUponATime, an EldritchAbomination came to Earth and MindRaped mankind. Its form happens to resemble a variety complex mathematical equations, instilling the fear of math into the human subconscious.

** "[[BatmanBegins Become your fear]]"

** Math is the work of TheDevil and/or [[HPLovecraft Cthulhu]].

* '''Exaggerated''': Math is hated to the point that some schools refuse to teach it.

* '''Exaggerated UpToEleven''': Math is so hated by a vast majority of people to the point that the very word [[UnPerson has been erased from the dictionary]].

* '''BeyondTheImpossible''': Math has been erased from existence due to the obscene amounts of hatred for the subject.
** As a person tries to solve a math problem for ten seconds, the earth explodes from sheer hatred.

* '''Justified''': As Math progresses to the more advanced, it has become too complex and too [[MindRape mind-rapingly]] [[EldritchAbomination eldritch]] to the point of [[ADegreeInUseless uselessness]]. And it's forced onto our curriculum.

* '''Parodied''': Math is hated because people have issues with simple math rather than advanced arithmetic.

* '''Enforced''': "If there is one subject that people will hate, it's math."

* '''Lampshaded''': "Of all the subjects they gave me, it had to be math."

* '''Invoked''': Someone cursed Math to bring down human civilization.

* '''Exploited''':"They gave me math, [[WeaksauceWeakness my one major weakness]]"

* '''Defied''': "Even though it's hard, I love math and [[TheDeterminator I shall conquer my fear of it, no matter what!]]"

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