Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #12940: Distributive property - Not teaching this skill
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-02-02 22:29:10+00:00
State: open
Labels: ie8, other, xp

Reporter: kimberly.rose.k@gmail.com

As a Teacher:
Most students/learners will not try to use the distributive problem to solve these problems. There are better ways to check understanding of the distributive property than using numbers such as these.

*Thanks for the awesome site :)

[distributive_property.html?seed=176&problem=evaluate](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/distributive_property.html?seed=176&problem=evaluate&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/distributive_property.html?seed=176&problem=evaluate&debug&activity=%5B%5D)

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