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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who cannot teach simple math to students?
(a) Parents.
(b) Elementary school teacher.
(c) Peers.
(d) Calculus professor.

2. Math is ________.
(a) Concrete.
(b) Conclusive.
(c) Abstract.
(d) Finite.

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

4. Which skill is rarely taught?
(a) Estimation.
(b) Multiplication.
(c) Transposing.
(d) Factoring.

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

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

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

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

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

10. How many days is a man's cycle?
(a) 28 days.
(b) 31 days.
(c) 12 days.
(d) 23 days.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A correct answer is _______.

2. Which other country is mentioned?

3. What is not a reason for innumeracy?

4. What is stronger than gravity?

5. When a student reaches college it is impossible to take the time to teach ________.

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