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Well it could just be the fact that numbers are an abstract concept. Plus if I'm remembering the right tribe they view property and food as communal property, they also have no trade or commerce, which means that they have simply never had a need for numbers. It could also be similar to language learning problems, it is much easier to learn a second language while you are young, and it gets increasingly harder the older you get. So if they are only trying to teach the adult males how to add they might have the same type of diffuculty. I think it is similar to evolution, if you don't need it it doesn't develope, so if they never needed math, never learned it or used it, it could just be that their minds have set in a thought model that does not use numbers, making it pretty much impossible for them to learn the concept. Kind of similar to never using an arm to the point that it has no strength or dexterity and then trying to use it to lift weights or type.
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