My grandma is mat./physicist and taught on art high school, so learned to really dumb it down. I was always struggling math, because I can't do the easy count, I make kind of typos unless I concentrate, which I mostly didn't. Then I somehow got from said art high school (granny not there when I was) to IT on university (because I like trying punk stuff) and on that school I immediately blew it because of maths on such a level I never even saw before. So I asked my grandma for help. She started drawing pictures with bloody crayons and exchanged numbers just for 🔲📐⭕symbols the first thing, so I wasn't distracted by counting. Like wtf do you mean is QUADRATIC equation. And then what sin or cos actually do in space, not just a stupid line on a paper. My mind was blown away, how much fun it all is, she was drawing in 3D waving hands around and all made suddenly sense and was so easy. I was twenty and it took about a week to catch up with others. With crayons.

I'm pretty sure that week could come as a month back in seventh grade and save me next six years of pain. With. Crayons.🤨

I don't think the math is taught abstract as much as just flat. It's just series of numbers and letters you have to solve to get on with it. There's not enough abstraction and colours in explanation.