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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 - Whence Innumeracy?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Is it insisted that children learn which functions?
(a) Advanced.
(b) Statistical.
(c) Rudimentary.
(d) Body.

2. What did the Italian scientist discover?
(a) Combustible fuel.
(b) Atom.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Bubonic plague.

3. What did the doctor invent?
(a) Biorhythmic analysis.
(b) Slide rule.
(c) Poisson's Formula.
(d) The rat's maze.

4. Teaching which skill is helpful?
(a) Rounding numbers.
(b) Fraction conversion.
(c) Decimals.
(d) Exponents.

5. Paulos believes that elementary schools lack ______ in their curriculum?
(a) Follow through.
(b) Informal logic.
(c) Motivation.
(d) Algorithms.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most prevalent scenario involving innumerates includes what?

2. Paulos believes that technological advances encourage:

3. This doctor was fond of which topic?

4. Which is an example of a coincidence?

5. What is often used to explain non-science?

(see the answer key)

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