Today PJ and I continued working with 1 step equations. He's able to do some of the simpler problems in his head, but I am trying to get PJ to develop the skill set of showing his work/steps. We started out solving problems like 8+x=15. We practiced showing -8 on both sides. Then PJ crossed out the 8s and evaluated 15-8 to get 7. Then I showed PJ how to check his solutions by substituting his answer back in to the original equation. We practiced adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. Next we will work on 2 step equations.