Let's just do a general reflection on what went well and what didn't this week. PRE-ALGEBRA So we had a quiz on solving 1-step equations last week.  They didn't do super.  It's hard to help them make the shift from doing problems they can do in their head (x + 5 = 12) to actually solving algebraically by doing the same thing to both sides of the equation.  We went over the algebraic properties of equality this year beforehand for the first time.  I really just gave them definitions and examples like if I have 12 = 12 and then…