How to Use math in a Sentence

math

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  • The math: The Aztecs outscored them 18-1 to close the game.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • But that doesn’t mean that what the math tells us is real.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023
  • But just to make the math easy, that’s a trillion dollars a year that has to come out.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Count the number of flowers or sheaths on a stalk sometime and then do the math.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
  • Factors like age, illness, and body size change the math.
    — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The math: $6 million for each school for two years is $24 million.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The late-night host has Olivia Rodrigo booked, James Corden is off the air, and my man does the math!
    — Vulture, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Anthony skipped four full grades and six grades of math.
    — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
  • Add the 5-for-14 third-down success rate to the turnovers, penalties and line-of-scrimmage management and the math wasn’t there.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 10 Sep. 2023
  • My patterns can help us with some back-of-the-envelope math.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • There is just so much that clinicians do that isn’t like math.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Lane Kiffin did the math, and no amount of Carroll‘s magical thinking could hide the truth.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • For those of you doing the math, yes, the two-day tally was Boston 40, Detroit 4.
    — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
  • Or even more relatable for us parents, there's the reel about mom math in order to get out of the house in time.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The credit for such big jackpots comes down to math — and more difficult odds.
    — Summer Ballentine, Fortune, 26 July 2023
  • On state tests, more than half of K-12 students don’t meet standards in math and reading.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Instead, students gained two months of progress in math and reading.
    — Carmen Nesbitt, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2023
  • The math world lit ablaze with equal parts celebration and dismay.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 24 July 2023
  • Your tax software or tax professional will do all the math for you.
    — David Rae, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Running the math and reviewing possible options will need to be part of the process.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The math may very well be on the side of the aliens existing, but that’s largely because the math of the universe itself turns out to be astounding.
    — Garrett M. Graff, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Doing the math, that would suggest an annual run rate of more than $240 million.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The former math teacher and rodeo cowboy now travel across the country searching for goods to bring back to Pawhuska.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Still, Google’s AI isn’t quite as good as a high school math prodigy, needing several more steps to get to the answer than a human.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Because, as Allure math would have it, anything above 30 percent off is free, right?
    — Anamaria Glavan, Allure, 22 Nov. 2023
  • With mortgage rates near and above 7% for all of August, purchasers’ buying power was crushed, and for many the math for buying a home just did not work.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The math and reading training center has been the subject of standup jokes, memes and, most recently, TikTok fame.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Many more math techniques would be needed to describe Mocka’s art.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The company suggests that users may want to build a bot that knows the rules of all board games, teaches kids about math, or can offer culinary advice.
    — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Your budding reader will have tons of fun putting the letters together, and the numbers are a great way to explore early math skills, too.
    — Christin Perry, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024

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