Lesson Plan: Math

This resource is from the American Samoa Technician Education Readiness Pathway Project (ASTERP), which aims to adapt the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded guitar building program to prepare students in American Samoa for entry into technician education programs. The project features unique lesson plans, designed to address gaps in STEM education, that incorporate the skills and knowledge required to pursue technician careers into the guitar building curriculum.

Included in this resource are three lesson plans. The first two integrate math skills into the guitar building workshop, providing math related learning objectives, prerequisites, concepts not covered, and more for each day of guitar building, ensuring that the program covers necessary mathematical concepts. The third is a 2-page stand-alone pre-calculus lesson plan featuring 2 activities centered around the simplification of rational expressions. The first activity consists of a competition where students pair up to solve rational expressions on whiteboards, while the second simulates a text conversation where students describe the process of simplifying a rational expression to an absent classmate.

Additional resources from ASTERP's guitar program are available separately.