Saint Ferdinand College

Elementary Department
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MATHEMATICS 2
Printed Learning Materials 4
Lesson 4: SOLVING TWO- STEP WORD PROBLEMS

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To solve the problem follow the steps.

1. UNDERSTAND
a. what is being asked?
b. What are the given?
Read the questions
What was the question asking to do?

2. PLAN
What operation will you use?
How did you plan to find the answer?

3. SOLVE
Answer the hidden questions.
Show how you found the answer.

4. CHECK
What was your complete answer?

Students must be able to solve problems efficiently and accurately. These word problems may require one
or two steps to solve using addition and/or subtraction. The students must be able to represent the problem in a
diagram and justify that their solution is reasonable.

For example:
There are 45 pupilsin the school library. After an hour, 9 pupils left, then 12 pupils walked in. How many
pupils are in the library now?
Let us solve the problem together and follow the steps:

UNDERSTAND
a. What is being asked?
-- HOW MANY PUPILS LEFT THE LIBRARY?

b. What are the facts/ what are given?

-- There were 35 ppilsin the library
9 pupils left
12 pupils entered

PLAN
What operation will you use?
1. Subtraction- to find out how many pupils left?
2. Addition- to find how many pupils are in the library.

SOLVE
 35 -pupils in the library
- 9 -pupils left
26 - total number of pupils in the library

26 - total number of pupils in the library

+ 12 - pupils entered
38 - pupils are in the library.

CHECK
We are going to use the opposite of the operations we used here: 38 - 12 = 26 and 26 + 9 = 35. So, the
answer is correct. Therefore, there are 38 pupils in the library.

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT:
Solve the problem.

Uncle Berto will bring us 150 fruits from our farm. We will give our cousins 55 fruits and our friends 35
fruits. We will keep the rest for our family. How many fruits will be kept for our family? 

ASSIGNMENT:
Answer page 181 number 3, 4 and 5. Use the 4 steps.