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Contraction of mathematics.

maths (uncountable)

  1. (Commonwealth, rarely Canada) Clipping of mathematics.
    • 1980 August 21, “Girls can do maths as well as boys”, in New Scientist, page 586:
      The conventional “commonsense” view now is that girls are conditioned both by family and teachers to believe that maths is a subject at which males excel, and that they believe they cannot be expected to comprehend its subtleties — so they don′t.
    • 2004, Miraca U.M. Gross, Exceptionally Gifted Children, page 229:
      At age 10, Ian was based with the Grade 6 students but was allowed to take maths with Grade 10 – a four-year grade advancement.
    • 2011, Clifford Matthews, IMechE Engineers′ Databook, 4th edition, John Wiley & Sons, page 40:
      Most people who are forced to use maths have little idea what it is really about.
    • 2023 May 29, Eugenia Cheng, “What if nobody is bad at maths?”, in The Guardian‎[2], archived from the original on 25 August 2023:
      But one thing I know is that when I help five- and six-year-olds with maths they typically scream with excitement, and only learn to fear it later.

short form of mathematics

maths

  1. plural of math

maths

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of math

  2. ^ Deterding, David (2007), Singapore English‎[1], Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 15

From English maths.

maths

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) mathematics
    Synonym: 數學 / 数学 (shùxué)

Clipping of mathématiques.

maths f pl

  1. (informal) math or maths (study of numbers, etc.; a course involving the study of numbers)
    Ce type-là, c'est une tronche en maths.
    That guy is a pro at math.

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