LESSON PLAN

GRADE 10

Learning Competency: Generates patterns

I. Objectives
At the end of the period, the students will be able to:
Knowledge: • Generates and describes patterns using symbols and
mathematical expressions.
Skill: • Finds the next few terms of a sequence.
Attitude: • Demonstrates cooperation in the given activity.

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Patterns and Algebra

Value(s): Learn to be patient and realize that some things and events in life follows a certain order.
Reference(s): Global Mathematics 10
e-Math Worktext in Math by Orlando Oronce and Marilyn O. Mendoza, pp. 1 – 3
http.//www.mathisfun.com/algebra/sequences-series.html
Materials: prepared instructional materials

III. Procedure

A. Classroom Routine
a) Prayer
b) Checking the Attendance
B. Review. Drill

ACTIVITY: Guess My Rule

The teacher will show strips with four or five numbers written in a sequence. Then ask the students to
explain the pattern.
Example:
a. 1, 3, 5, 7, ……
b. 13, 10, 7, 4 ……

C. Motivation. Brainstorming

The teacher will start the discussion

It is a common experience to be confronted with a set of numbers arranged in some order. The
order and arrangement may be given to you or you have to discover a rule for it from some data.

For example, the milkman comes every other day. He came on July 17; will he come on Aug 12?
Consider that you are given the set of dates: 17, 19, 21, …arranged from left to right in the order of
increasing time. Continuing the set, we have July 17, 19, 21, …, 29, 31, August 2, 4, ….,28, 30…so that
the answer to our question is yes.

Any such ordered arrangement of a set of numbers is called a SEQUENCE.

D. Lesson Proper
 A sequence maybe generated from shapes, patterns, or rules. Each number in sequence is called a
term. Each term is identified by its position in the ordered list. The terms are usually denoted by a 1, a2, a3,
…or t1,t2, t3, ….
Example:
Lorna, a 2nd year student deposits her savings of P1,000 in an account that earns 10% simple interest. The
total amount of interest she earned in each of the first 4 years of her saving is shown below:
Year 1 2 3 4
Total amount 10 20 30 40

E. Generalizations.

Guide Questions for Generalization:

How do you find the next few terms of a sequence?
F. Reflection.

Ask for sample scenarios or event in real life which students can relate as an application about the
topic on Patterns and Algebra.

IV. Evaluation/Assessment. Activity

Activity: Find the next term in each sequence.

1. 17, 22, 27, 32, …

1 1 1 1
, , ,
2 5 8 11
2. …

3. 5, 10, 20, 40,…

4. 3, -3, 3, -3,…

V. Assignment.

Answer the given word problem at home.

Under a normal condition, a newborn pair of rabbits that are put in a field produces no offspring
during the first month. At the end of the second month, the female rabbit produces a new pair of rabbit in
the field. If a female rabbit always produces one pair every month from the second on, how many pair of
rabbits will there be at the end of one year?

Prepared by:
Angelito S. Mendoza