True/False Examples

  1. Water freezes at 0°C.

    • better informed student challenges statement because unclear if salt or fresh water, sea level or higher, etc., so says "false"


  2. The sun rose yesterday.

    • false, the sun does not circle the Earth, the Earth circles the sun


  3. 2/3 = 0.7

    • false, because 2/3 = .667 --> did you mean precisely or roughly?


  4. There are only ten provinces in Canada.

    • false two territories --> or is it three this week?