The way I see it is Math isn't something we invented, it's something we discovered and it's all around us. Granted there are very big and important theoretical parts but a lot of the math most of us have learned is very straight forward. Here's an equation or a situation, this is how you apply it, and here's an example problem of how to work through it.

I've never really understood how people struggle with Math. I'm a little biased because I've been in advanced Math classes since elementary school but I still just don't get it.

My sophomore year of college I was taking Differential Equations while my girlfriend's friend was taking the equivalent of high school algebra II. She needed help in the class so I offered to tutor her(how hard can it be it's Algebra II, literally the most important things you learn in that class are factoring, solving, and graphing).

I ask her what she needs help with and it's solving an equation. I ask her if she understands how to factor and yes she says she does. So I ask her to factor it and she does it wrong. I decide to reteach her how to factor because either she learned wrong or she just doesn't get it.

I give her a lesson just like my old algebra teacher did and provide examples with problems in her homework. Easy, right?

Nope, she's amazed I'm doing this with such ease. Now, I don't know if she was just watching me do it without actually paying attention or what but I sat for around an hour explaining how to do this over and over again. It just didn't connect with her.

At the time she was a math education major. I hope she's either figured it out or not majoring in math anymore.

TL;DR: Math has always seemed and came natural to me. I don't understand how people don't understand math.