Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VII, Central Visayas
Schools Division of NEGROS ORIENTAL

Enriching Literacy and Numeracy Skills through Problem Solving

(PS – ELaNS)
Subject: MATHEMATICS Grade Level: 1
OPERATION
MELC WORD PROBLEM SOLUTION ANSWER
/ CONCEPT

ADDITION illustrates
Joining addition as
Marie has 6 pencils and Marie has 8
Problem “putting together
her friend Sarah gives her pencils in total.
or combining or
2 pencils. How many
joining sets”
pencils does Marie have 6 + 2 = 8
in total?
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Ali has 4 guavas. Ronnie

has 3 guavas. How many Ali and Ronnie
guavas do they have have 7 guavas
altogether? altogether.
4 + 3 = 7
ADDITION adds the
Separation following
Ken harvested Ken had 8
Problem numbers using
pineapples. He ate 3 pineapples at
appropriate pineapples. Then he had the start.
techniques: 5 pineapples left. How 3 + 5 = 8
many pineapples did he
a. two one-
harvest at the start?
digit
numbers

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with
sums up Pena has some lollipops.
She gave 2 to her friend Pena had 7
to 18
Caren. Then she has 5 lollipops at the
2 + 5 = 7 beginning.
lollipops left. How many
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the beginning?

ADDITION
Increase
Mark bought 3 rambutans. Mark bought 5
Problem
He bought 2 more rambutans in
rambutans. How many all.
rambutans did he buy in
all? 3 + 2 = 5

Mother cooked 4 eggs. Mother cooked

She cooked 4 more eggs. 8 eggs in all.
How many eggs did
Mother cook in all? 4 + 4 = 8

ADDITION 10
Decrease Marlo used to
Problem
Marlo's sales decreased + sell 15 glasses
to 10 glasses of buko juice 5 of buko juice a
a day. Now, his sales are
_______ day.
5 glasses of buko juice a
day. How many glasses 15
did Marlo use to sell a

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day?

Roel used to
Roel spent Php5.00 less spend
a day. Now he spends Php20.00 a
Php15.00. How much did day.
he use to spend a day?

ADDITION solves one-

Comparison step routine and + = Sebastian has
Problem nonroutine 11 marbles.
Sebastian has three more
problems
marbles than Judd. If Judd
involving
has 8 marbles, how many Judd’s marbles 3 more Sebastian’s marbles
addition of
marbles does Sebastian
whole 8 + 3 = 11
have?
numbers
including money
with sums up to
99 using There are 32
There are three more 1
boys in Grade I.
appropriate boys than girls in Grade I.
problem-solving If there are 29 girls, how 29
strategies. many Grade I boys are
there?
+ 3_
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Subject: MATHEMATICS Grade Level: 1

OPERATION /
MELC WORD PROBLEM SOLUTION ANSWER
CONCEPT

SUBTRACTIO subtracts the

N Separation following Harry has 2
Harry has 5 chocolate cupcakes. chocolate
Problem numbers:
He gave 3 to her younger cupcakes left.
a. one-digit brother. How many chocolate
numbers with cupcakes are left for Harry?

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minuends
through 18
(Basic facts)
There are 2
There are 6 glasses on the table. glasses left on the
Mother picked 4 glasses. How table.
many glasses are left on the
6 - 4 = 2
table?

SUBTRACTIO Subtracts
N Joining Father puts 9
one- to two- There are 9 mangoes in the mangoes in the
Problem
digit numbers basket. Father puts more basket.
with minuends mangoes in the basket. If there
up to 99 are 18 mangoes in all in the
without basket, how many mangoes
regrouping does father put in the basket?

18 - 9 = 9

Kat falls asleep

Kat falls asleep at 2:00 pm. She for 2 hours.
wakes up at 4:00 pm. How many
hours does she sleep?

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SUBTRACTIO Subtract
N Increase 8 glasses of water a day - 2 more Arlo used to drink
one- to two- Arlo drinks 8 glasses of water a glasses than he usually drinks 6 glasses of
Problem
digit numbers day after drinking 2 more water.
with minuends glasses than he usually drinks. 8–2=6
up to 99 with How many glasses of water did
regrouping Arlo use to drink?

10
- 2_ Megan used to
Megan sleeps 10 hours a day 8 sleep 8 hours a
after adding 2 more hours of day.
sleep than her usual hours of
sleep. How many hours did
Megan use to sleep?

SUBTRACTIO solves routine

N Decrease and non- Six candies were
There were 8 candies in the jar. eaten.
routine
Some candies were eaten. If

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Problem problems there are 2 candies left, how
involving many candies were eaten?
subtraction of
whole numbers
including
money with
minuends up to 27 There were 23
99 with and Teacher Ara prepared 27 plates - 4_
without of spaghetti for her pupils. If all 23 pupils present.
regrouping pupils ate and 4 plates of
spaghetti are left, how many
pupils were present?
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SUBTRACTIO
N Comparison
Rosa picked 5 roses. Cora Cora picked 3
Problem
picked 8 roses. How many more more roses than
roses did Cora pick than Rosa? Rosa.
8 - 5 = 3

Tara has 4 books.

Tara has 5 fewer books than
Tessa. If Tessa has 10 books,
how many books does Tara
have? 10 - 5 = 4

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Subject: MATHEMATICS Grade Level: 1

OPERATION /
MELC WORD PROBLEM SOLUTION ANSWER
CONCEPT

MULTIPLICATIO
N Repeated The farmer has
A farmer has 5 baskets. 36 eggs in total.
Addition/ Rate
Each basket contains 6
Problem
eggs. How many eggs does
the farmer have in total?

Mother prepared 2 jugs of Mother can fill 8

orange juice. Each jug can glasses of
fill 4 glasses of orange juice. orange juice in
How many glasses of all.
orange juice can mother fill
in all?

MULTIPLICATIO
N Array Problem There are 25
There are 5 rows of 5 chairs chairs in Grade I
in Grade I classroom of Mrs. classroom.
Reyes. How many chairs are
there in all?

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Lara baked 20
Lara baked cookies in 4 cookies in all.
rows with 5 cookies in each
row. How many cookies did
she bake in all?

4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 = 20

MULTIPLICATIO
N Comparison Ana spends
Ana and Aya went to a more than Aya.
store. Ana bought 2 pencils

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Problem that cost Php5.00 each. Aya
bought 2 erasers that cost
Php2.00 each. Who spent
more?

Kiro picked less

Kiro and Nero went to the number of
farm to pick mangoes. Kiro mangoes than
picked 2 baskets with 4 Nero.
mangoes in each basket.
Nero picked 3 baskets with 4
mangoes in each basket.
Who picked less mangoes?

MULTIPLICATIO 2
N Combination + There are 10
Sam has 2 new polo shirts. 3 buttons on the
Problem
Each shirt has 3 blue = two polo shirts.
buttons and 2 red buttons. 5
How many buttons are there 2
on the 2 shirts? +
3
=
5
5 + 5 = 10

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There are 14
Leo has 2 jars of marbles. marbles in all.
Each jar has 2 red marbles
and 5 yellow marbles. How
many marbles are there in
all?

2 +5 = 7 2+5 = 7
7 + 7 = 14

Subject: MATHEMATICS Grade Level: 1

OPERATION
MELC WORD PROBLEM SOLUTION ANSWER
/ CONCEPT

DIVISION
Repeated 5 children will
Teacher Cherry, a Grade One teacher 25-5 = 20 = Child 1 receive 5
Subtraction/

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Rate distributed 25 pencils. If each child 20-5 = 15 = Child 2 pencils each.
Problem received 5 pencils, how many children
15-5 = 10 = Child 3
will receive 5 pencils each?
10-5 = 5 = Child 4
5 = Child 5

There are 6
Maria harvested 30 eggplants from her 30-5 = 25 = Group 1 groups of
vegetable garden. She grouped the eggplants.
25-5 = 20 = Group 2
eggplant. Each group has 5 eggplants.
How many groups of eggplants are 20-5 = 15 = Group 3
there in all?
15-5 = 10 = Group 4
10-5 = 5 = Group 5
5 = Group 6
DIVISION
Array There are 5
There are 15 cakes on the table. If the rows of cakes.
Problem
cakes are displayed in rows and each
row will have 3 cakes, how many rows
are there?

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Samantha has
Samantha brought 20 bananas. She
5 friends.
shared them equally with her friends. If
each of her friends received 4 bananas,
how many are her friends?

DIVISION visualizes,
Comparison represents, Marco ate less
Mother bought pizza. Marta ate ½ of pizza than
Fraction divides a
the pizza and Marco ate ¼ of the pizza. Marta.
Problem whole into
Who among Marta and Marco ate less
halves
pizza?
and fourths
and Marta Marco
identifies ½
and ¼ of a
whole
object.
Minnie bought
more candies
Minnie and Manny bought candies.
than Manny.
Minnie bought 10 candies. Manny only
bought one-half of the number of
Minnie’s candies. Who bought more
candies?
DIVISION
Grouping
Adi has 12 blue buttons. He equally There are 3
divided the buttons in the jars. Each jar jars with 4

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Problem has 4 buttons. How many jars are buttons in
there? each jar.

There are 8
Lian has 16 lollipops. He groups the groups of
lollipops equally. Each group has 2 lollipops.
lollipops. How many groups of lollipops
are there?

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