Nathan B. answered • 10/16/19
Elementary and Algebraic skilled
It's probably because math is a language unto itself--a language of science, logic and analytics. It follows rules of its own. The numbers are its words, the symbols the puncuation, and the final answers the periods, question marks, and exclamations finishing the mathematical sentences.
Other languages are derivatives or modifications of other languages. There's a reason Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese are considered Romantic languages -- They're all based out of Rome. English, on the other hand, is Germanic. If you look compare related languages, you can see where the rules are similar, and words in one are carried over or modified in a related language.
Math, however, had to be made whole hog on its own, with people having to create the rules all on their own, and modify as new concepts are developed, interpreted, realized, or conceived. For example, It might surprise you to know this given how common it is, but 0 wasn't even a number when math originally formulated.
Anyways, that's my supposition: Math is a language that uses a different part of the brain than what you use to learn other languages (hence why some people are dyslexic and others dyscalculic) . If you understand the rules of how mathematics work, it becomes a bit easier to read, use, and implement. It's why I try to break each step down to its base parts so that others can follow along and see what's happening.
