Today is Wednesday. What day will it be in 4 days?
ASaturday — counting Wednesday as day 1: Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
BSunday — counting forward 4 steps: Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
CFriday — 4 days means 2 school days forward
DTuesday — going back 4 days from Wednesday
Counting forward 4 days from Wednesday: day 1 is Thursday, day 2 is Friday, day 3 is Saturday, day 4 is Sunday. The answer is Sunday. Option A is the classic off-by-one error of counting the starting day as day 1 instead of starting the count from the next day.
Question 2 Multiple Choice
How many days are in exactly 2 weeks?
A10 days — two school weeks of 5 days each
B14 days — 7 days in a week, so 2 × 7 = 14
C12 days — a week has about 6 days
D7 days — one week plus one extra
One week = 7 days (all days Sunday through Saturday, not just school days). Two weeks = 7 + 7 = 14 days. A common error is thinking of a 'school week' of 5 days, but a calendar week always includes all 7 days.
Question 3 True / False
If today is Tuesday, then yesterday was Monday.
TTrue
FFalse
Answer: True
True. The days of the week always follow the same fixed order: …Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday… Yesterday means one day before today. One day before Tuesday is always Monday, no matter what week or month it is.
Question 4 True / False
A month is made of exactly 4 weeks.
TTrue
FFalse
Answer: False
False. Four weeks = 28 days, but most months have 30 or 31 days (and February has 28 or 29). So most months are slightly longer than 4 weeks and contain a few extra days beyond the four full weeks. Only February in a non-leap year is exactly 4 weeks.
Question 5 Short Answer
What do the words 'yesterday,' 'today,' and 'tomorrow' mean, and how are they similar to positions on a number line?
Think about your answer, then reveal below.
Model answer: 'Today' is the current day — your position right now. 'Yesterday' is one day before today (one step back). 'Tomorrow' is one day after today (one step forward). Like a number line where each number has the number before it to the left and the number after it to the right, each day has a fixed day before and after it in the weekly sequence.
The days of the week are like a number line: they repeat in a fixed order. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow are relative positions that shift as the current day changes, just like 'the number before' and 'the number after' shift depending on where you stand on the number line.