OVERALL EXPECTATION A1. apply, to the best of their ability, a variety of social-emotional learning skills to support their use of the mathematical processes and their learning in connection with the expectations in the other five strands of the mathematics curriculum.

• problem solving: develop, select, and apply problem-solving strategies
• reasoning and proving: develop and apply reasoning skills (e.g., classification,
recognition of relationships, use of counter-examples) to justify thinking, make
and investigate conjectures, and construct and defend arguments
• reflecting: demonstrate that as they solve problems, they are pausing,
looking back, and monitoring their thinking to help clarify their understanding
(e.g., by comparing and adjusting strategies used, by explaining why they think
their results are reasonable, by recording their thinking in a math journal)

Understanding the language of Algebra Unit 1
Learning Goals: I can identify en equation from a expression, growing patterns, variable and I can investigate ways to solve growing patterns.