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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Deciding how to buy which item might help children learn?
(a) Pasta.
(b) Cereal.
(c) Bread.
(d) Milk.

2. Innumerates are more likely to believe in what?
(a) Atlantis.
(b) Absolutes.
(c) UFOs.
(d) Fairies.

3. The author mentions sagas from which country?
(a) Norway.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Greece.

4. What is often caused by childhood trauma?
(a) Math anxiety.
(b) Phobias.
(c) Educational blocks.
(d) Rashes.

5. What is stronger than gravity?
(a) Moon.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Tides.
(d) Obstetrician.

6. Which is an incorrect statement in science?
(a) In most cases.
(b) Whatever.
(c) Usually.
(d) It depends.

7. Many are innumerate because they cannot connect math to:
(a) Daily living.
(b) Personal experience.
(c) Anything important.
(d) Abstract concepts.

8. According to Paulos, math has many ________.
(a) Inconsistencies.
(b) Mysteries.
(c) Variables.
(d) Certainties.

9. Lack of what is responsible for that fear?
(a) Encouragement.
(b) Application.
(c) Punishment.
(d) Celebration.

10. How many days is a woman's cycle?
(a) 14 days.
(b) 23 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 28 days.

11. Which doctor was the inventor's good friend?
(a) Wellby.
(b) Jung.
(c) Oppenheimer.
(d) Freud.

12. Teachers may not teach math because of:
(a) Apathy.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Incompetence.
(d) Fear.

13. What is not a common aid used to teach math?
(a) Yarstick.
(b) Diagrams.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Riddles.

14. Which is not one of the algorithms mentioned?
(a) Exponents.
(b) Fractions.
(c) Subtraction.
(d) Addition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is used as one of the examples?

2. What is CSICOP?

3. Which of the following is mentioned as being highly affected by lack of estimating skills?

4. What is Paulos' favorite pseudoscience?

5. Which of the following is rationalized?

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