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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which is related to pseudoscience?
(a) Weather.
(b) Innumeracy.
(c) Gravity.
(d) Illiteracy.

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

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

7. What great writer is mentioned in this chapter?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Eliot.
(c) Woolf.
(d) Dickens.

8. What do people often use to rationalize things?
(a) Reverse logic.
(b) Back talk.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) Escape clause.

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

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

11. Which president is mentioned in the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Bush.
(b) Reagan.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Jackson.

12. Which book in the Bible is quoted by Paulos?
(a) Revelations.
(b) Gospel of Matthew.
(c) 1 John.
(d) Genesis.

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

14. What is a student's last chance to learn math?
(a) Middle school.
(b) College.
(c) On the job.
(d) High school.

15. Paulos states that some people believe _______.
(a) Math is incomprehensible.
(b) No one cares how to calculate tax.
(c) 1 and 1 do not equal 2.
(d) Calculators rule the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which can be blamed for poor curriculum?

2. Paulos believes that elementary schools lack ______ in their curriculum?

3. The student mistakenly assumed that his professor believed in what?

4. Which capital city is mentioned?

5. Which is not one of the algorithms mentioned?

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