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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the invention reveal?
(a) How to calculate time zones.
(b) Human periodic cycles.
(c) How to cure phobias.
(d) Internal sleep clock.

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

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

4. Which of the following is rationalized?
(a) Uncertain results.
(b) Failure of predictions.
(c) Truth in predictions.
(d) False evidence.

5. What piece of office equipment is mentioned?
(a) Copier.
(b) Typewriter.
(c) Computer.
(d) Telephone.

6. What is not mentioned as something being estimated?
(a) Paycheck.
(b) Time.
(c) MPG.
(d) Mortgage payment.

7. What is CSICOP?
(a) Council for Studious Classification of Pythagoras.
(b) Committee for Simple Conversion of Pi.
(c) Committee for Scientific Claims of the Paranormal.
(d) Conclave of Scientists Clashing with Pseudoscience.

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

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

10. The city is the capital of which country?
(a) Iceland.
(b) US.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Germany.

11. The situation for mathematically uneducated high school students is:
(a) Inexcusable.
(b) A fact of life.
(c) Sad.
(d) Critical.

12. What famous doctor does Paulos consider to be an innumerate?
(a) Koop.
(b) Freud.
(c) Salk.
(d) Johnson.

13. When does this occur?
(a) Anytime.
(b) At noon.
(c) At birth.
(d) -5 GMT.

14. Who is used as one of the examples?
(a) Manuela.
(b) Mavis.
(c) Margie.
(d) Myrtle.

15. Most prevalent scenario involving innumerates includes what?
(a) Simple math.
(b) Long division.
(c) Tax forms.
(d) Cash register.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the doctor invent?

2. Which is not mentioned as being a way to teach children?

3. What animal is referred to by the author?

4. A correct answer is _______.

5. Who cannot teach simple math to students?

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