Quote: "The trick they used was very simple; as warriors left to go to battle; they each put a rock in a pile. When they got home again, they each remove one. The numbers of rocks left equaled the number of men lost. The chief would then remove each rock in turn and pick up a stick for each rock he removed. He then would walk to the other tribe with his sticks and demand a buffalo in exchange for each one."
Question: Some questions that arose in my head is how did they manage to survive for so long without math? At first, I thought math was just a subject you learned in school and wasn’t valuable outside of school. However as I grew older, I learned that math is everywhere. So even back then, they would have needed to count the number of spears they would need before going to fight, so each warrior can be well equipped. Or with food, they needed to make sure that everyone had enough food to survive. So I was just wondering how they were so successful in living without any math involved.
Comment: I think this quote is interesting though because it sounds to us like laziness, but that was how they had to handle that situation. They didn’t have mathematicians living before them to solve all of our problems, and we just use their work. Therefore, they had to make do with what little knowledge that did have, and find a simpler way to compensate for their losses at war.
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