Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. It turns out there are better ways to count.
Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability.
(…) And in English, words like “twelve” or “eleven” don’t give many clues as to the structure of the number itself (these names actually come from the Old Saxon words ellevan and twelif, meaning “one left” and “two left”, after 10 has been subtracted).













