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Originally Posted by _Q_
Yes and no. It's actually extremely confusing if you're not speaking the language on a daily basis.
For example, the number 241 385 is read from left to right in English ( two hundred, forty-one thousand, three hundred, eighty-five).
In Arabic it bounces around a lot ( two hundred and one and forty thousand, three hundred and five and eighty).
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So it sounds like we should not be teaching math in Arabic in schools, because it would be unnecessarily confusing for the non-Arabic speakers.
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