I mean it's not really different terminology, matrices are order 2 tensors so we're all in agreement that they're technically doing math on tensors. It's just weird to call it tensors when you exclusively operate on matrices.
Headcanon: tensor just sounded cooler - and it is cooler - when Tensorflow was invented, and it's stuck around.
Headcanon: tensor just sounded cooler - and it is cooler - when Tensorflow was invented, and it's stuck around.