It's been suggested that humans have a special purpose language module.* Modern humans typically resort to pocket calculators in order to do common math calculations.
A.s.a., and other AIs,** could be given a math module "add-on." The AI would learn associations like: one -> 00110001, plus -> 00101011, equal -> 00111101, 00110010 -> two, etc. The AI could then pass math calculations to a simple calculator program and receive back results.
* See, for example, Chomsky or Fodor. (Though the modern view of language modularity is weaker.)
** Neural networks are believed to be bad at learning common math operations.
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