Why is it always math that people pick on when this argument comes up. I've never needed to use the periodic table, or calculate the potential energy of somethi

Why is it always math that people pick on when this argument comes up. I've never needed to use the periodic table, or calculate the potential energy of something, or know the model of an atom, or analyse a poem, or [...]. I imagine most people don't need any of that yet for some reason it's always math that is the boogieman of "useless" topics we learn in school.