Coach: look at the exit check results and the paper practice. Go back over every item a student missed: read it together, have the student explain their thinking, then show the correct thinking. Use the reteach routine below for anyone who missed two or more. Students who got everything right take the stretch task.

🔄 Reteach it (missed two or more)

Use cups and counters on a balance mat. Physically remove the same number of counters from both sides, or split counters into equal groups for each cup.

Ask "What is happening to x?" then "What undoes that?" before every step.

x + 2 = 9
Answer: x = 7.
3x = 12
Answer: x = 4.
x - 5 = 5
Answer: x = 10.

🚀 Stretch it (got everything right)

Write a word problem for 6x = 54 and solve it.
Answer: x = 9.
Explain why we do the same thing to both sides.
Answer: To keep the equation balanced (equal).