terminology - When was the term "mathematics" first used?

By the second century, in the Almagest, Ptolemy provides a modern conception of "mathematics" as a "science":

'Mathematics' ... is an attribute of all existing things, without
exception, both mortal and immortal: for those things which are
perpetually changing ... it changes with them, while for eternal

things ... it keeps their unchanging form unchanged.

When was the term "mathematics" first used in this way?

Answer

It seems the term "mathematics" has been used to express different things at different times, historically. The name itself - "mathematics" - is Greek in origin, and at that point in time, mathematics encompassed much more than it does today in terms of its breadth.

See the entry on Wikipedia: Etymology of term "mathematics".

See also the entry, History of Mathematics, which includes the following assertion:

The study of mathematics as a subject in its own right begins in the 6th century BC with the Pythagoreans, who coined the term "mathematics" from the ancient Greek μάθημα (mathema), meaning "subject of instruction".
- (Reference given: Heath. A Manual of Greek Mathematics. p. 5.)

This may provide a start, and provides further resources, if you scroll down. (The link is to a subsection of the entry "Mathematics".

Also of interest is Earliest Known Uses of Mathematical Words, a site maintained by Jeff Miller, where you can find the origins of the use of many mathematical terms. Click on "M", then scroll down to "mathematics". (This addresses the question in your post's title.) I'll quote the start of that entry:

Words of the form math- derive ultimately from the Greek mathematike tekhne meaning "mathematical science," itself derived from manthanein, the ordinary word meaning “to learn.” How the association with a special form of learning came about is considered by T. L. Heath (A History of Greek Mathematics, vol. 1 pp. 10-11). Heath describes how the school of Pythagoras distinguished between those who had learned the theory of knowledge in its most complete form, the mathematicians, and those who knew only the practical rules of conduct. He infers that, “seeing that the Pythagorean philosophy was mainly mathematics, the term might easily become identified with the mathematical subjects as distinct from others.”