How to Use math in a Sentence

math

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024