The supposed check from a father to an elementary school using "Common Core numbers" was just a joke and never sent to the school.

This is why it's a bit silly for Hermann to have written a check incorporating 10-frame cards along with X's and O's. His children aren't being taught some kind of new type of "Common Core numbers ...

The check expressed the total amount of dollars using Common Core. After Herrmann, from Painesville, posted the check on Facebook, it has been shared more than 27,000 times. Though Herrmann admits ...