diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2c3a76f5..25caf31f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ multilingual = [
     "jieba", # for chinese tokenizer
     "pyvi", # for vietnamese tokenizer
 ]
+math = ["latex2sympy2_extended>=0.8.0"]
 
 [project.urls]
 Homepage = "https://github.com/huggingface/lighteval"
diff --git a/src/lighteval/metrics/dynamic_metrics.py b/src/lighteval/metrics/dynamic_metrics.py
index 11aef25c..e83c9ea6 100644
--- a/src/lighteval/metrics/dynamic_metrics.py
+++ b/src/lighteval/metrics/dynamic_metrics.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     LogProbTokenNorm,
     get_multilingual_normalizer,
 )
-from lighteval.metrics.utils.extraction_utils import (  # noqa: F401
+from lighteval.metrics.utils.extractive_match_utils import (  # noqa: F401
     ExprExtractionConfig,
     ExtractionTarget,
     IndicesExtractionConfig,
diff --git a/src/lighteval/metrics/utils/extraction_utils.py b/src/lighteval/metrics/utils/extractive_match_utils.py
similarity index 97%
rename from src/lighteval/metrics/utils/extraction_utils.py
rename to src/lighteval/metrics/utils/extractive_match_utils.py
index 2cb3ce85..1a0d6c94 100644
--- a/src/lighteval/metrics/utils/extraction_utils.py
+++ b/src/lighteval/metrics/utils/extractive_match_utils.py
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 from typing import Literal, Sequence
 
 import sympy
-from latex2sympy2_extended.latex2sympy2 import NormalizationConfig, convert_to_pct, latex2sympy, normalize_latex
 from sympy import Basic, MatrixBase, Number
 from sympy.parsing import parse_expr
 
@@ -35,6 +34,7 @@
 from lighteval.tasks.requests import Doc
 from lighteval.tasks.templates.utils.formulation import ChoicePrefix, get_prefix
 from lighteval.tasks.templates.utils.translation_literals import TRANSLATION_LITERALS
+from lighteval.utils.imports import requires_latex2sympy2_extended
 from lighteval.utils.language import Language
 from lighteval.utils.timeout import timeout
 
@@ -282,7 +282,10 @@ def get_target_type_order(target_type: ExtractionTarget) -> int:
 # Small cache, to catche repeated calls invalid parsing
 @lru_cache(maxsize=20)
 @timeout(timeout_seconds=5)
+@requires_latex2sympy2_extended
 def parse_latex_with_timeout(latex: str):
+    from latex2sympy2_extended.latex2sympy2 import latex2sympy
+
     return latex2sympy(latex, is_real=not should_treat_as_complex(latex), convert_degrees=False)
 
 
@@ -324,9 +327,17 @@ def extract_expr(match: re.Match) -> tuple[str | sympy.Expr | None, str]:
         return None, expr
 
 
+def convert_to_pct(number: Number):
+    return sympy.Mul(number, sympy.Rational(1, 100), evaluate=False)
+
+
 @lru_cache(maxsize=1000)
+@timeout(timeout_seconds=5)
+@requires_latex2sympy2_extended
 def extract_latex(match: re.Match) -> tuple[sympy.Expr | str | None, str]:
-    _, latex = next((val for name, val in match.groupdict().items() if name.startswith("latex") and val), "")
+    from latex2sympy2_extended.latex2sympy2 import NormalizationConfig, normalize_latex
+
+    latex = next((val for name, val in match.groupdict().items() if name.startswith("latex") and val), "")
     is_percentage = True if match.group("percent") else False
 
     normalized_latex = normalize_latex(
diff --git a/src/lighteval/utils/imports.py b/src/lighteval/utils/imports.py
index c8fb2ce7..9b92adce 100644
--- a/src/lighteval/utils/imports.py
+++ b/src/lighteval/utils/imports.py
@@ -123,3 +123,20 @@ def can_load_stanza_tokenizer() -> bool:
 
 
 NO_STANZA_TOKENIZER_ERROR_MSG = "You are trying to load a stanza tokenizer, for which you need `stanza`, which is not available in your environment. Please install it using `pip install lighteval[multilingual]`."
+
+
+# Better than having to check import every time
+def requires_latex2sympy2_extended(func):
+    checked_import = False
+
+    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
+        nonlocal checked_import
+        if not checked_import and importlib.util.find_spec("latex2sympy2_extended") is None:
+            raise ImportError(NO_LATEX2SYMPY2_EXTENDED_ERROR_MSG)
+        checked_import = True
+        return func(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    return wrapper
+
+
+NO_LATEX2SYMPY2_EXTENDED_ERROR_MSG = "You are trying to parse latex expressions, for which you need `latex2sympy2_extended`, which is not available in your environment. Please install it using `pip install lighteval[math]`."