What does mean a following phrase: Mathematics as a 'service subject'
Hello everyone!
I was reading a text in english: 'Difficulties in the passage from secondary to tertiary education', but I did not understand the phrase above, help please!

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"Service subject" has no meaning to me in American English.  British English perhaps?

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I looked up the phrase and found "Teaching mathematics as a service subject"
And this makes a lot more sense.

So a teacher teaches subjects. This is about teaching the subject of "Mathematics as a service"

So, the subject is about how to use Mathematics to do something.

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Sounds like jargon to me. My guess is what they mean is that the students' primary focus is a subject other than maths, but they need it for what they are actually studying, for example physics or engineering.

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I guess service subject kinda means main subject? Coz the students who are major in math has to treat maths study as their main task

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the context could help, it is the following: 'This is true whether the student are specializing in mathematics or are registered in a program for which mathematics is a "service subject" '

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