Today PJ and I worked on word problems. I was super impressed with PJ's understanding of this content, as we have not done word problems together of this caliber. We covered problems like: Tony wants to rent a car for $230 flat fee and then $0.30 per mile. Write an expression to represent the amount Tony would pay. Then use that expression to determine how much Tony will pay if he drives the car 120 miles. PJ wrote 230+m0.30, then he corrected himself to 230+0.30m! High Five! Then he knew to substitue in 120 for the m. He wrote 230+0.30120. I told him that looked like the 0.30 and the 120 were all one number. He suggested parenthesis 230+0.30(120), I said YES PJ! At first he thought we stop there. But when I reminded him that the question asked how much total Tony would pay, he was able to simplify to $266. We did a few other word problems and PJ did a great job.