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Ancient Mesopotamia built its numbers on which base?Read the answer and worked solution →In France, the word soixante-dix, literally sixty-ten, stands for which number?Read the answer and worked solution →The French word quatre-vingt, literally four-twenty, stands for which number?Read the answer and worked solution →Which word do Swiss and Belgian French prefer for seventy instead of soixante-dix?Read the answer and worked solution →Welsh counting partly uses which system of counting?Read the answer and worked solution →The German sechsundzwanzig is literally read in English as what?Read the answer and worked solution →In the rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence, how many blackbirds were baked in a pie?Read the answer and worked solution →The Yuki people count using the four spaces between their fingers. Which base is this?Read the answer and worked solution →Finger counting is still used by people to settle what in the marketplace?Read the answer and worked solution →The Hebrew and Greek methods of writing numbers used what for digits?Read the answer and worked solution →The family of numerals now standard worldwide first originated in which country?Read the answer and worked solution →Which numeral system can handle negatives, fractions and arbitrarily large numbers?Read the answer and worked solution →Chinese number words are assembled from the words for one to nine and words for what?Read the answer and worked solution →In the debate on whether mathematics is internal or external, which philosopher is named as an externalist?Read the answer and worked solution →Externalists such as Penrose tend to be what toward ethnomathematics?Read the answer and worked solution →Nine men's morris suits play outdoors using which simple materials?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these games belongs to the mancala family mentioned among ethnomathematics games?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Indonesian craft was analysed by Hokky Situngkir to make fractal designs?Read the answer and worked solution →In what main way does mathematics appear in folk art such as woven carpets?Read the answer and worked solution →Which social issue does the political area of ethnomathematics examine besides race?Read the answer and worked solution →A 1993 study showed how mathematics could politically and economically arm which Brazilian group?Read the answer and worked solution →Gerdes suggested using which resources for classroom mathematics?Read the answer and worked solution →Many educators urge teachers to use which kind of mathematics?Read the answer and worked solution →Mathematics education is known in Europe by which name?Read the answer and worked solution →Which teaching approach uses class topics to solve everyday problems and links them to current events?Read the answer and worked solution →Which method is constructivist and built on problem-based or inquiry-based learning?Read the answer and worked solution →Rote teaching of tables and formulas by repetition has what derisory name?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is recreational mathematics used in teaching?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Indian author first published the book Vedic Mathematics in 1965?Read the answer and worked solution →How many sutras does the book Vedic Mathematics contain?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Ancient Mesopotamia built its numbers on which base?

  1. 10
  2. 12
  3. 20
  4. 60
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Correct answer: D. 60

1. In ancient Mesopotamia the base for constructing numbers was 60. 2. Ten served only as an intermediate base for numbers below 60. 3. Twenty and twelve are linked to other counting traditions. _Source: Wikipedia, Ethnomathematics, Mesopotamia_

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In France, the word soixante-dix, literally sixty-ten, stands for which number?

  1. 60
  2. 80
  3. 90
  4. 70
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Correct answer: D. 70

1. Soixante-dix is sixty plus ten, which is seventy. 2. Eighty is quatre-vingt and ninety is quatre-vingt-dix. 3. Sixty is simply soixante. _Source: Wikipedia, Ethnomathematics, French_

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The French word quatre-vingt, literally four-twenty, stands for which number?

  1. 90
  2. 40
  3. 24
  4. 80
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Correct answer: D. 80

1. Quatre-vingt means four twenties. 2. Four times twenty is 80, showing a base of 20. 3. Ninety is quatre-vingt-dix, four-twenty ten. _Source: Wikipedia, Ethnomathematics, French_

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