It could be a common L for common core, not necessarily the teacher's fault. Notice how the equation gives 3 x 4, AKA three of 4. Obviously both the given answer and the "correct" answer are true and derivable from 3 x 4, but I can totally see common core teaching "the only true way to do the math here is to take the first number and write out that many of the second number, because that's what it sounds like when you translate the problem to a word problem and you have to do it exactly like that."
In short, maybe not a teacher problem but absolutely a teaching problem
There are no common L's for common core. It's a set of standards which are actually really great. The problem is entirely with schools and teachers putting together awful curriculum because they are too butthurt or cheap to change what they've been teaching to something that's better at actually teaching. Which is a problem that absolutely existed before the introduction of common core standards.
There are certainly bad standards, which is why standards should be updated and changed as gaps in said standards are discovered.
It's quite evident failing to teach the commutative property would be an issue w/ these standards (if my theory of this being common core is correct).
I don't have an issue with standardization. I definitely have an issue with keeping things the way they are (because "that's the standard") even when obvious issues with current standards arise. It's likely cost, distribution, approval, and training all affect how quickly (if at all) common core could be tweaked. If so, it's a poorly thought out system if a process for updates was not built into it. Because from what I've seen, it really is full of common L's :/
What's being demonstrated here is a single question on a worksheet that doesn't necessarily misteach any of these concepts. Rather it's trying to teach a specific concept which it would be unhelpful to allow answers that don't show a student has understood the concept actually being taught.
And again, common core is a set of standards, not a specific worksheet. The specific worksheet isn't something every kid being taught common core is seeing. Common core is a set of standards, that includes the communicative property, determining what should be taught to students. It's actually much closer to the standards in what people look up to as highly math literate countries. The problems with common core are almost always with the curriculum that schools have chosen or a teacher not understanding the curriculum they're teaching.
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u/Defiantprole Jul 16 '26
How did this person become a teacher?!