Teaching maths In Britain

[August]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

It's maths as in the short from of mathematics.

Mathematics is made of up different kinds of math, eg algebra, calculus etc. If each is taught singly as it is in the US 1 year for one area then indeed it is math class, but if however like the rest of the world that I know of all are taught together then it is mathematics or maths for short.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics I know it is wikipedia but still

It must've changed since the cave man days when i was going to school.