From the beginning of my schooling when I was a wee tot of 5 years, until I entered highschool at 13, I regarded myself as proficient at mathematics and science. Always recieving 70% and upwards but these days I regard myself as terrible at maths and anything requiring logistical terms of thought and absolutely despise these subjects.
In tracing Back through my schooling, I have recently come to the realisation that The reason I grew to despise maths was because I was lead to believe I was bad at it. I was lead to believe I was bad at it is because In the beginning of year 8 I recieved a few bad test scores because I just didn't catch on/didn't do homework and was made to feel inferior. To avoid disappointment or dellusion I told myself I wasn't a "mathematical" person. Through fear of failure a hatred was begot.
The most interesting thing Is that I know understand I am not bad at maths or science as I play several musical instruments and The musical mind and the mathematic minds are closely linked requiring much of the same pattern of thought.
If you are not good at something chances are you will not want to do it and not enjoy doing it, if you are placed in a situation where you are obligated to do it, you will grow to hate it. Although this is not the case for all teenagers, and some may genuinely have a pure unadulterated hatred for it from the day they were born, I hold the belief that If you possess SOME intellect a firm grasp on maths and science is acheivable.
The alternate reason as to why teenagers dislike these subjects could largely fall on the teacher. If a teachers Idea of making the student learn is sending them home with pages of equations to do and formulae to remember then It could give the child the incorrect impression of what the subject is really about they therefore develop a negative image in their mind.

Conclusively a dislike for Math and Science does not lie on the subject itself but either the representaion or The students feeling of ineptitude.

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