I teach and from my experience drive and aptitude is not the problem. "Math" and "abstraction" are not the problem either, except that for many educators they a

I teach and from my experience drive and aptitude is not the problem. "Math" and "abstraction" are not the problem either, except that for many educators they are synonymous with rote memorization which leads to ridiculous amounts of math phobia in the US that I have not seen in Europe. When you hear people avoiding math in teaching, they usually mean avoiding the rote "non beautiful" perversion of math frequently presented by educators with limited math experience.