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 a balance-scale drawing: whatever you do to one side, do to the other. Write each inverse step on its own line, with an arrow labeled "−5 both sides," "÷ 2 both sides."

Check by substituting the answer back into the original equation.

x + 7 = 12
Answer: x = 5.
3x = 21
Answer: x = 7.
2x + 1 = 9
Answer: x = 4.

🚀 Stretch it (got everything right)

Solve 3(2x − 5) − 2(x − 4) = 9.
Answer: 6x − 15 − 2x + 8 = 9 → 4x − 7 = 9 → x = 4.
Write two different two-step equations that both have the solution x = −2. Check each.
Answer: Examples: 3x + 10 = 4 (3(−2) + 10 = 4); −5x − 1 = 9 (−5(−2) − 1 = 9).