@poppastring
As a Maths teacher/tutor, I see a lot of students who THINK they are bad at Maths, but what I invariably find is their arithmetic skills are actually poor (the standard is to be able to answer an up to 12 times table question in 2 seconds, and we're talking not even close for these students), which is like trying to build a house on faulty foundations. Invariably once I start getting them up to speed with it they start feeling CONFIDENT with Maths now, and don't hate it anymore!