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Originally Posted by Perikles
And I find 'math' really odd, because I've never heard anything other than 'maths'. The plural is derived from the Greek ending -ikos meaning 'pertaining to' and in plural -ika as a neuter plural generally 'things pertaining to', from which words like economics derive. I find the plural quite natural, presumably through habit.
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We, in the US, tend to use specialized or proper nouns for different types of math, and since we use them as subtypes, the umbrella term is usually used as a singular instead of as a plural. However, I'm not sure if mathematics is meant to be plural, but we tend to use it as singular.