It doesn't help that math is a 100% abstract course but filled with subtleties that make the whole lot of difference and if you don't grasp them, half the exercises will go wrong - not only that but misinformation spreads like wildfire and since it is totally abstract if it has a bare minimum of logical sense to it, it becomes impossible to change the mindset and the info spread, even in circles of well educated people.

Like a nice jolly history major might hear something about physics and think it's cool, but then a physicist says it's not like that and the history major will easily change the mindset, a false Math fact you can't just shoot a "the evidence and empirical research tells a different story bro" it's very hard to make people forget the wrong information on their head.

I think philosophy might have a similar issue. So it's no wonder that by holding everything to a rigid standard some stuff becomes hard to read for a high-school student