The study proposes and confirms a set of independent variables (gender and school type) and its effect on dependent variable is mathematics anxiety. The sample size is 1000 secondary school students. The tools used are Mathematics anxiety scale (MAS), An Intuitional Background Assessment Questionnaire and A Personal Background Questionnaire. The data was analyzed using computation of means and standard deviation, computation of standard error and use of t–test and f-test for measuring the significant of the difference between the means. The results found that there exist significant difference between male and female students so far as their anxiety in math is concerned. Second major finding is that, there is significant difference among the type of schools and math anxiety.