A lot of the bad examples of it you'll see are just poor teaching (e.g. the "3 x 5 can't be 5 + 5 + 5, it's 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3" image), and we had that before Common Core. That guy's "batshit insane" example is just a slightly obtuse word problem.
A lot of the bad examples of it you'll see are just poor teaching (e.g. the "3 x 5 can't be 5 + 5 + 5, it's 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3" image), and we had that before Common Core. That guy's "batshit insane" example is just a slightly obtuse word problem.
> just a slightly obtuse word problem
Heh, I was imagining it was about overlapping arrangements that are divided equally or something. So is it really just asking for 6? In that case yes, its not really insane, just questionably worded.
If you pull out a calculator to multiply two 3-digit numbers and get back a 4-digit number, are you going to trust the calculator or are you going to go "wait a minute..." and double check you entered it right?
If the latter, you probably already have the intuition it's supposed to teach.
Edit: Or for something a bit more every-day: You're at a store and buy something that costs $6.24, pay with a $20, and get back $6.62. You may not know exactly what you were supposed to get back, but you do immediately know without having to do the math that it was definitely more than that.