maths

CEFRA1

/mæθs/

noun

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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John is good at maths.
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.
Most people who are forced to use maths have little idea what it is really about.

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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.
2004, Miraca U.M. Gross, Exceptionally Gifted Children, page 229
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.
1980 August 21, “Girls can do maths as well as boys”, in New Scientist, page 586
Most people who are forced to use maths have little idea what it is really about.
2011, Clifford Matthews, IMechE Engineers′ Databook, 4th edition, John Wiley & Sons, page 40
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.
2023 May 29, Eugenia Cheng, “What if nobody is bad at maths?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2023

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Contraction of mathematics.