Learning goals: Teacher Facing Apply the distributive property to expand or factor an expression that includes negative coefficients, and explain (orally and using other representations) the reasoning. Comprehend the terms “expand” and “factor” (in spoken and written language) in relation to the distributive property. Full lesson plan (warm-up, activities, synthesis, cool-down prompt) from 7.6 Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities, Grade 7.