"carried out studies with the Pirahã tribe, a hunter-gatherer group of about 200 people, whose counting system consists of words which mean, approximately, 'one', 'two' and 'many'."

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040816/full/040816-10.html

i don't know whether to laugh or cry - "one. two. many." is *exactly* my level of understanding of mathematics...

anyone care to join me as i venture into the amazonian jungle to find my numerically challenged brothers and sisters?

"i don't know whether to laugh or cry - "one. two. many." is *exactly* my level of understanding of mathematics..."

LOL... yep... I found out recently that I have Dyscalculia... I always liked some maths and saw it as a challenge, but my concepts of maths don't reach further than "a few" (up to maybe 5) and "many" (anything above that). Correspondingly I only learned most of it by rote, had no clue of the mechanics of it and forgot everything as soon as the exams were done.