Veritasium just put out a great video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRr1kaXKBsU
Not that I'm afraid of math, I just don't feel like I need to see equations when it's a concept that is being explained rather than how to numerically calculate something. Math helps me as much as a code implementation does to explain the concept of a variable: I can observe its behavior but it doesn't necessarily teach me the concept.