alleryWhat challenge limits researchers who study the maths of other cultures?
ALack of any numbers
BToo many books
CTheir own frameworks
DFixed timetables
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Their own frameworks
1. Researchers recast other cultures' ideas into a Western framework to understand them.
2. So they are limited by their own mathematical and cultural frameworks.
3. Some ideas may go unnoticed because they have no Western counterpart.
_Source: Wikipedia, Ethnomathematics, section The mathematics of different cultures_
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