alleryThe history-of-mathematics area of ethnomathematics mainly counters which belief?
ANationalism
BCalendar bias
CEurocentrism
DMetric bias
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Eurocentrism
1. It challenges the idea that most worthwhile mathematics came from the Western world.
2. That belief is called Eurocentrism.
3. It stresses that the history of mathematics has been oversimplified.
_Source: Wikipedia, Ethnomathematics, section The history of mathematics_
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