diff --git a/lib/banzai/filter/spaced_link_filter.rb b/lib/banzai/filter/spaced_link_filter.rb
index d8b4f447583e51616079b6dbf88f2c473bd227f5..64583d0520fa213b16f561fc15dbf695d366aac4 100644
--- a/lib/banzai/filter/spaced_link_filter.rb
+++ b/lib/banzai/filter/spaced_link_filter.rb
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class SpacedLinkFilter < HTML::Pipeline::Filter
       )
 
       # Text matching LINK_OR_IMAGE_PATTERN inside these elements will not be linked
-      IGNORE_PARENTS = %w[a code kbd pre script style].to_set
+      IGNORE_PARENTS = %w[a code kbd pre script style span[@data-math-style]].to_set
 
       # The XPath query to use for finding text nodes to parse.
       TEXT_QUERY = %(descendant-or-self::text()[
diff --git a/spec/lib/banzai/filter/spaced_link_filter_spec.rb b/spec/lib/banzai/filter/spaced_link_filter_spec.rb
index 4f9bf00b29a1b38896fd5f5527043433d0b30e98..29f27190eca6e598958f6706cb2a41bee37cc575 100644
--- a/spec/lib/banzai/filter/spaced_link_filter_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/banzai/filter/spaced_link_filter_spec.rb
@@ -93,9 +93,10 @@
     expect(found_images[0]['alt']).to eq 'example'
   end
 
-  described_class::IGNORE_PARENTS.each do |elem|
-    it "ignores valid links contained inside '#{elem}' element" do
-      exp = act = "<#{elem}>See #{link}</#{elem}>"
+  described_class::IGNORE_PARENTS.each do |xpath|
+    it "ignores valid links contained inside '#{xpath}' element" do
+      match = xpath.match(/(?<element>\w+)(?:\[@(?<attribute>.*)\])?/)
+      exp = act = "<#{match[:element]}#{" #{match[:attribute]}" if match[:attribute]}>See #{link}</#{match[:element]}>"
 
       expect(filter(act).to_html).to eq exp
     end
diff --git a/spec/lib/banzai/pipeline/full_pipeline_spec.rb b/spec/lib/banzai/pipeline/full_pipeline_spec.rb
index 7def8c9b74ec1cba0c88312179a3ac168bde15bc..73225d8fd261ced89ad97e2aa33fb01019dd6bdd 100644
--- a/spec/lib/banzai/pipeline/full_pipeline_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/banzai/pipeline/full_pipeline_spec.rb
@@ -315,4 +315,17 @@
       is_expected.to include '<span class="kc">true</span>'
     end
   end
+
+  describe 'math does not get rendered as link' do
+    [
+      "$[(a+b)c](d+e)$",
+      '$$[(a+b)c](d+e)$$',
+      '$`[(a+b)c](d+e)`$'
+    ].each do |input|
+      it "when using '#{input}' as input" do
+        result = described_class.call(input, project: nil)[:output]
+        expect(result.css('a').first).to be_nil
+      end
+    end
+  end
 end