This package includes three lesson plans focusing on problem-solving, using Polya’s Four-Step method. Each lesson plan uses animation as the springboard into an activity. While I include the Mathematics Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE), all lessons are written to be used with matching state and national standards that include real-world applications.

The first lesson focuses on strategy selection for problem-solving. It is designed to be a short practice session for problem-solving skills. The second lesson is a model of using content within multimedia to connect to in-class activity. The third lesson is a model lesson on using multimedia to connect to grade-level-specific standards. It extends an example for 6th-grade application using the area of a triangle.

This video is freely available on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/pHXDlRWzGqs

Each lesson plan includes:

Short summary

Mathematics Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE)

Learning targets

Time stamps for pause points associated with lesson goals and learning targets

Questions to ask students and expected answers

Accommodations for the activities

Each package includes:

Additional problems with solutions

All materials to implement the lessons in multiple formats (editable and PDF)

PowerPoints included have slide information listed in the lesson plan

PowerPoint files are intentionally simple, as many teachers like to customize them or use templates

Solutions, steps, and explanations for the problems shown in the video

Script for the video

All documents are editable in Microsoft Office formats and as PDF to maintain formatting

Mathematics Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) Targeted:

SMP.1 - Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

SMP.2 - Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

SMP.4 - Model with mathematics.

SMP.5 - Use appropriate tools strategically.

SMP.7 - Look for and make use of structure.

SMP.8 - Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.