36% of younger (15-24 year-olds) people feel anxious about maths, compared to 10% of older (65+)
20% of adults in Great Britain have felt anxious when confronted with a mathematical problem
23% of parents of children aged 5-15 report that their eldest child often feels anxious when attempting to solve a maths problem
80% of adults have never heard of the term Maths Anxiety
Extract from the Ipsos MORI poll, commissioned by
Maths Anxiety Trust in May 2018