This math assessment workbook focuses on foundational algebra skills that bridge arithmetic and prealgebra. It includes problems focused on simplifying expressions, solving basic algebraic equations, and understanding variable representation. This unit provides students with repeated practice in early algebra, such as combining like terms and writing simplified expressions. Students practice combining like terms, such as "m plus m plus m", to create expressions like "3m". They also practice solving one-step linear equations by using inverse operations (adding/subtracting the same quantity from both sides or dividing both sides by a coefficient). Common core skills for this unit include understanding and applying properties of operations and the use of variables, solving real-world and mathematical problems using numerical expressions, and understanding the concept of solving equations and inequalities.