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Who introduced the term ethnomathematics in 1977?Read the answer and worked solution →Ethnomathematics is the study of the relationship between mathematics and what?Read the answer and worked solution →Ethnomathematics is often associated with which kind of cultures?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the main goal of ethnomathematics?Read the answer and worked solution →Which phrase best defines ethnomathematics?Read the answer and worked solution →In the word ethnomathematics, the prefix ethno refers mainly to what?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the quipu use to record numbers?Read the answer and worked solution →Roman numerals can represent only which kind of numbers?Read the answer and worked solution →Arabic numerals are a family of systems that originated in which country?Read the answer and worked solution →How did the Hebrew and Greek methods write digits, tens and hundreds?Read the answer and worked solution →Which English word is a leftover of ancient counting by twelves?Read the answer and worked solution →Which idea explains why English number words are built on ten?Read the answer and worked solution →In German, 26 is sechsundzwanzig. What does this word literally say?Read the answer and worked solution →Which nursery rhyme line shows the older English unit-before-tens pattern?Read the answer and worked solution →In France, soixante-dix for 70 literally means what?Read the answer and worked solution →The French word quatre-vingt for 80 is built on which idea?Read the answer and worked solution →Welsh counting combines other features with which kind of system?Read the answer and worked solution →Which base did ancient Mesopotamia use to build its numbers?Read the answer and worked solution →Many West African languages build number words on which combination?Read the answer and worked solution →The Yuki people count using which part of the hand?Read the answer and worked solution →The Yuki finger-space counting method is known as which base?Read the answer and worked solution →Finger counting still helps people who speak different languages to do what?Read the answer and worked solution →The history-of-mathematics area of ethnomathematics mainly counters which belief?Read the answer and worked solution →Externalists, who often criticise ethnomathematics, see mathematics as what?Read the answer and worked solution →N.C. Ghosh placed ethnomathematics in the list of which kind of mathematics?Read the answer and worked solution →Knijnik studied Brazilian farmers who grew which crop?Read the answer and worked solution →Paulus Gerdes wrote about using mathematics in schools of which pair of countries?Read the answer and worked solution →What do studies of many cultures say about basic counting and sorting methods?Read the answer and worked solution →What challenge limits researchers who study the maths of other cultures?Read the answer and worked solution →West African children draw a shape in sand with one line that closes at its start. What idea is this?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Who introduced the term ethnomathematics in 1977?

  1. Ubiratan D'Ambrosio
  2. Paulus Gerdes
  3. Alan J. Bishop
  4. Claudia Zaslavsky
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Correct answer: A. Ubiratan D'Ambrosio

1. The term was put forward in 1977 at a talk to a US science association. 2. It came from the Brazilian educator and mathematician Ubiratan D'Ambrosio. 3. Gerdes, Bishop and Zaslavsky wrote on the subject later, but did not coin the term. _Source: Wikipedia, Ethnomathematics, section Development and meaning_

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Ethnomathematics is the study of the relationship between mathematics and what?

  1. Culture
  2. Weather
  3. Politics
  4. Machines
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Correct answer: A. Culture

1. Ethnomathematics links mathematics with the cultures of people. 2. It asks how groups count, measure, design and play. 3. Weather, machines and politics alone are not its core link. _Source: Wikipedia, Ethnomathematics, Lead section_

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Ethnomathematics is often associated with which kind of cultures?

  1. Those with printed books only
  2. Those of large modern cities
  3. Those of machine makers
  4. Those without written expression
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Correct answer: D. Those without written expression

1. The field often looks at everyday mathematics of communities. 2. Many of these communities pass knowledge on without writing. 3. The other options describe literate or industrial settings, which are not its usual focus. _Source: Wikipedia, Ethnomathematics, Lead section_

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