Today we started by finishing our review. We discussed Percent Change and reviewed problems like "If Aiden buys a car for $10,000 and in 2 years it's worth $8,500, by what percent did the car's value depreciate? We used the formula (new-old)/old. Aiden recognized when the formula produces a positive result it is a percent increase (and a negative answer means a percent decrease).
Then we moved back into Chapter 5 and continued working on Writing and Solving Two-Step Equations. Aiden is doing an impressive job of being able to read the word problem and set up an equation. Today he recalled what we worked on yesterday, by starting with the total. We covered problems like, "Kristy ran 24 laps during the race but walked the last 0.2km. She completed a total distance of 29.6km. What was the distance of each lap?" Aiden set up the equation: 24D+0.2=29.6. Then he used inverse operations to solve for D. Our class was cut short due to recess so tomorrow we will finish the lesson.