If as you say the expression is "never going away" then it would seem that DragMath is in fact working just as it is supposed to work......
Please go to docs.moodle.org and look at the doc on DragMath. Please read the doc including the information on what DragMath does and doesn't do and the section on troubleshooting.
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DragMath not formatting correctly
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