I made these Frayer Models to try to help connect passages for easier transfer of knowledge between the contextual math problems (math in real life) and it's symbolic form (the equations, and x's and y's that everyone thinks upper level math is supposed to be). If you feel like you don't know enough applications in context or an application/context that is "good enough", then make it an assignment. It also really helps give students structure and organizes their thoughts on each concept all on o