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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because it's the short form of "mathematics"

Although typically I've seen the UK call it maths and North Americans call it math.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Is the ending s kept on abbreviations of other singular nouns ending in s? Or is that unique to maths?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

To the best of my understanding, mathematics isn't referencing a singular object but is used as an encompassing term to refer to content from multiple schools of mathematics e.g. geometry, statistics, calculus, algebra etc. Or in other words, all the subjects covered in math/maths class! 😊