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Tic-tac-toe is played on a board of what shape?Read the answer and worked solution →Which game is described as well suited to outdoor play with stones on dirt?Read the answer and worked solution →Oware is a game that belongs to which family of games?Read the answer and worked solution →Mathematics appears in woven carpets and cloth mainly through what?Read the answer and worked solution →How many kinds of plane symmetry can a woven cloth exhibit?Read the answer and worked solution →The geometry of which traditional motifs did Hokky Situngkir analyse?Read the answer and worked solution →What does ethnomathematics first ask about mathematics education?Read the answer and worked solution →Why do many educators favour teaching culturally based mathematics?Read the answer and worked solution →What is multicultural math in the classroom?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is one of the three criteria of culturally relevant pedagogy?Read the answer and worked solution →What does culturally sustaining pedagogy aim to foster?Read the answer and worked solution →Culturally relevant maths teaching challenges which popular belief?Read the answer and worked solution →Parents who stress effort over innate ability help their child build what?Read the answer and worked solution →By about what age do children begin to do addition and subtraction mentally?Read the answer and worked solution →At about what age can children recall maths answers from memory?Read the answer and worked solution →Which group can already grasp most principles of counting?Read the answer and worked solution →A study found that teaching about stereotype threat can do what?Read the answer and worked solution →Women trained to approach rather than avoid maths showed what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which parent action best reduces maths anxiety?Read the answer and worked solution →Ginsburg found that a child's expectations depend most on which factor?Read the answer and worked solution →Claudia Zaslavsky said studying maths is more like studying what?Read the answer and worked solution →According to Zaslavsky, focusing on the method lets students do what?Read the answer and worked solution →Eugene Geist advises teachers to focus on what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which attachment style was linked to more maths anxiety in children?Read the answer and worked solution →What message does a right-way-only style of maths teaching send?Read the answer and worked solution →Which practice do teachers use to benefit children most in maths?Read the answer and worked solution →Why do girls often have low confidence in their maths ability?Read the answer and worked solution →Before learning algebraic notation, young children should first learn to do what?Read the answer and worked solution →The educator who coined the word ethnomathematics came from which country?Read the answer and worked solution →Which number system recorded numbers on knotted strings?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Tic-tac-toe is played on a board of what shape?

  1. A 3-by-3 square
  2. A 4-by-4 square
  3. A triangle
  4. A circle shape
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Correct answer: A. A 3-by-3 square

1. Tic-tac-toe is a geometrical game. 2. It is played on a 3-by-3 square. 3. The goal is a straight line of three same symbols. _Source: Wikipedia, Ethnomathematics, section Games of skill_

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Which game is described as well suited to outdoor play with stones on dirt?

  1. Ping pong game
  2. Playing cards
  3. Snakes and ladders
  4. Nine men's morris
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Correct answer: D. Nine men's morris

1. Nine men's morris is a board game with pieces that move or jump. 2. It suits outdoor play with stones on the dirt. 3. Chess and the others are not described that way. _Source: Wikipedia, Ethnomathematics, section Games of skill_

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Oware is a game that belongs to which family of games?

  1. Checkers
  2. Chess
  3. Go
  4. Mancala
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Correct answer: D. Mancala

1. Oware is named with other mancala games. 2. These are viewed as subjects for ethnomathematics. 3. Checkers, chess and Go are separate games. _Source: Wikipedia, Ethnomathematics, section Games of skill_

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