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 algebra tiles or an area model grid for every multiplication problem so each partial product is visible.

For subtraction, rewrite with a "plus the opposite" first: change every sign in the second polynomial before combining.

Combine ___ terms.
Answer: like.
(a + b)(a - b) = ?
Answer: a² - b².
Check factoring by ___.
Answer: multiplying.

🚀 Stretch it (got everything right)

Show with an area model why (x + 3)² ≠ x² + 9.
Answer: Missing the 6x middle term.
Explain why polynomials are not closed under division, using an example.
Answer: Example: 1 ÷ x is not a polynomial.