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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the best way to improve math skills?
(a) Teach another.
(b) Reading math books.
(c) Study underlying philosophy.
(d) Practice.

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

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

5. Which other country is mentioned?
(a) Sweden.
(b) Norway.
(c) Greenland.
(d) Canada.

6. Which is taught in elementary schools?
(a) Algebra.
(b) Algorithms.
(c) Subsets.
(d) Trigonometry.

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

8. In elementary school, math is rarely _______.
(a) Pursued.
(b) Integrated.
(c) Taught.
(d) Valued.

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

10. Innumeracy is ________.
(a) Defunct.
(b) Foolish.
(c) Widespread.
(d) A myth.

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

12. The student mistakenly assumed that his professor believed in what?
(a) Magic.
(b) Extraterrestrials.
(c) Fairies.
(d) Love potions.

13. Paulos was encouraged to learn math because ____.
(a) Childhood trauma.
(b) Couldn't tell time.
(c) Father was a math teacher.
(d) Wanted to learn about money.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Things are often misused if they are ______.

2. Which skill is rarely taught?

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

4. What did the doctor invent?

5. What do people often use to rationalize things?

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