“Poorly worded Common Core” anything is redundant. I haven’t seen a single genuinely thought-out, well-wrought or even slightly-improved aspect to this clusterfuck.
I don’t understand why, the harder we try to fix education, the more Marx Brothers the results get. I can only conclude that these new curricula and materials are being written by teaching professionals too stupid to actually, you know, teach.
ETA: GQ-quality answer: No, it’s not you; an examination of CC materials shows them to be frighteningly badly written and conceived. There is no possible sensible answer to the question.