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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is not a reason for innumeracy?
(a) DIfficulty.
(b) Misconception.
(c) Poor education.
(d) Psychological block.

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

3. What is the term for knowing something before it happens?
(a) Lucky guess.
(b) Deja vu.
(c) Precognition.
(d) Coincidence.

4. Paulos believes that technological advances encourage:
(a) Selfishness.
(b) Laziness.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Ignorance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is taught in elementary schools?

2. The situation for mathematically uneducated high school students is:

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

4. What great writer is mentioned in this chapter?

5. The doctor was convinced about his:

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the author's opinion of parapsychology as a pseudoscience?

2. Discuss the story of the student, the professor, and UFOs.

3. What other fallacies were contributed by Freud?

4. What is the downfall of technology in regards to innumeracy?

5. Why is estimation important? Who does it affect?

6. How does Paulos explain the famous monkey/Shakespeare probability example?

7. How does Paulos relate this theory to Freud and the prediction of the great doctor's death?

8. Why is the innumeracy in this case surprising to many?

9. If algorithms are taught in elementary school, why is it difficult for students to learn and use them?

10. What is one of the largest errors in integrating math into a student's life? What is a common result?

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