When it comes to explaining nature, money, physics, and many other important things math has tremendous power. And there is tremendous power if you can harness the power of math.

But looking beyond the tangible numbers, there are things such as subjectivity, opinions, human behavior, and more which completely alter and change the predictions of many calculations. And there are also things in nature that math doesn't always make sense for.

For example, if you take 500 Skittles in one hand, and 500 skittles in the other, their consistencies may be completely different. 500 Skittles doesn't explain it all. They may have different weights, quantities of colors, quality issues, and more... Maybe an entire pile is smaller than the other. So perhaps there are many things that are wrongly measured.

Let's consider when the concept of math can fail, and look into this other concept that might give you an interesting point of view of how 1 + 1 = 3.