Today I Found Out
Should it Be Math or Maths? (2018x310)
Ausstrahlung: Nov 26, 2018
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Aluminium or aluminum, zee or zed, and removing u’s from certain words or not- among the many discrepancies between American and British English, perhaps none conjures as much religious fervor as math vs. maths.
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Sources:
http://qz.com/638845/americans-are-spectacularly-bad-at-answering-even-the-most-basic-math-questions/
http://www.oecd.org/skills/ESonline-assessment/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics
https://data.oecd.org/pisa/mathematics-performance-pisa.htm
http://grammarist.com/spelling/math-maths/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/12/08/math_versus_maths_how_americans_and_brits_deploy_the_collective_noun.html
http://www.storyofmathematics.com/medieval.html
https://nces.ed.gov/whatsnew/commissioner/remarks2016/03_10_2016.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Etymology
http://grammarist.com/spelling/math-maths/
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2007/03/maths.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/12/08/math_versus_maths_how_americans_and_brits_deploy_the_collective_noun.html
http://www.word-detective.com/2011/05/math-vs-maths/
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/171025/maths-for-mathematics-where-does-the-s-come-from
http://grammarist.com/grammar/nouns/#Count_nouns_and_mass_nouns
https://www.etymonline.com/word/math
https://mathbenny.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/etymology-definition-of-mathematics/
https://www.etymonline.com/word/mathematic
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/
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