Maybe you can start from a different angle. It might sound odd, but try taking a simple concept that you know, say calculating a restaurant tip or something and write it out in English + LaTeX. Build on this until you can do some more complicated problems, and soon I would bet you’ll read math as something a bit closer to code in your head. I had to do this a lot for classes in college, and forcing yourself into exposition is the math equivalent of rubber ducky programming. LaTeX will give you a feel somewhere between math and code that might feel a bit more natural.