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English is weird
Barmymoo:
I always treat it as a singular.
jwhouk:
"Maths" is a relatively new use of the term. I haven't got a clue, but then again, I speak 'merican, with a side of Cheesehead dere hey.
Barmymoo:
It's been "maths" in British English forever, to my knowledge, so not really new!
Carl-E:
Maths is the British UK usage, math is the American usage. But Akima and Barmy is are correct in that its use is singular in both cases. They're just different abbreviations for mathematics.
Papersatan:
Could 'maths' be a plural when used to emphasize the inclusion of more than one type of math? I have never heard it used that way, and I'm not sure it makes sense, semantically, because I don't think you can divide math like that. (Even though there are types of math (calculus, statistics, geometry...) I'm not sure they really separate into different things in the way that say "breads" or "fishes" can.) But, if you could conceive of the fields within math as discrete than to me "his maths are" would be emphasizing all the various types of math that he is not wrong about.
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