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I don’t think they mean that

Thanks to John Golden (@mathhombre) for the find.

From the Common Core State Standards Progressions document on the 6—8 Expressions and Equations standards:

The “any order, any grouping” property is a combination of the commutative and associative properties. It says that sequence of additions and subtractions may be calculated in any order, and that terms may be grouped together any way (p.5).