Today Aiden and I took notes on Two step equations and word problems. Aiden read the problems aloud and then we came up with ways to express what the problem represented. Aiden had to come up with how to write " 5 less than 3 times a number" and "half of the quantity of 4 more than m". Aiden did a great job recalling how operations are represented symbolically. Next, we practiced solving two step equations by doing inverse operations. We also worked backwards to check our solutions.