Maths is essentially a way to abbreviate words. Teachers did not like to write out long sentences on the blackboard. If sentences became too long, they did not fit on the blackboard and they became too hard too read anyway. So teachers started to introduce abbreviations and symbols. This is all that maths is.
Teachers can capture a lot of rhetoric in a single formula.
Teachers therefore present maths as something that makes things easier. The problem with maths is that it expresses the philosophy of uniformity, of universal truth, of singularity, etc. Some people may agree to use a symbol or abbreviation to refer to a specific process. This may be useful in whatever they are doing. But what maths does is to elevate such an abbreviation or symbol to a uniform system that everyone has to use, as if it is the one and only true reflection of universal reality.