Abstract:
Mathematics is a subject that many young students find difficult and not enjoyable. Many students cannot see how they will ever use the concepts they learn in math in their lives. In order for students to engage in lessons, the teacher must motivate them. It is the teacher's job to design lessons that interest the students and engage them in meaningful activities. One way to make lessons meaningful is by designing them around real-life application. Every concept can be adapted to real-life application, and teachers should encourage students to make these connections. I wrote a 20-lesson unit plan that contains four lessons for each content standard (Number Sense, Computation, Algebra and Functions, Geometry, and Measurement), in which each lesson is completely designed around a real-life application. A majority of the lessons are original ideas.
