Learning Target

I can solve
multiplication word
problems using the
GAPESA method
Work Plan
• Start-up Song
• Can You Guess?
• Story Time
• Let’s Talk
• Let’s Practice
• The Helpful Tool
 Visualizing and Solving
One-Step Routine and
Non-routine Problems
Involving Multiplication of
Whole Numbers
Let’s have our start-up song!
Guess What?
Some health benefits of
potatoes

• Have vitamin C that help

protect our cells from
damage
• The outer potato skin has
fiber that helps in our
digestion
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St or y
Hash Brown Day
Mrs. Santos always cooks
delicious hash browns for
her family every Saturday.
She bought 4 bags of
potatoes with 7 pieces each
inside. How many potatoes
did she buy in all?
We are going to follow the G.A.P.E.S.A.
method.
G- what are given?
A- what is asked?
P- what is the process to be used?
E- what is the equation?
S- what is the solution?
A- what is the answer?
In the word problem, GAPESA will be
like this…

G-4 bags of potatoes. 7

pieces inside each bag.
In the word problem, GAPESA will be
like this…

A What is asked is how

-
many potatoes did she
buy in all?
In the word problem, GAPESA will be
like this…

P The process that we

-

are going to use is

multiplication.
In the word problem, GAPESA will be
like this…

E The equation or
-

number sentence is 4
x 7 = N.
In the word problem, GAPESA will be
like this…

S The 4
x 7
-

solution is
28
In the word problem, GAPESA will be
like this…

A The answer is 28
-

potatoes in all.
4 x 7 = 28
 4
x 7
28 28 potatoes
bought
Let’s have
another
example…
Meg bought 6 boxes of apples
with 5 pieces inside. How many
apples did she buy in all?
In the word problem, GAPESA will be
like this…

G-6 boxes
5 apples inside
In the word problem, GAPESA will be
like this…

A What is asked is how

-
many apples did she buy
in all?
In the word problem, GAPESA will be
like this…

P The process that we

-

are going to use is

multiplication.
In the word problem, GAPESA will be
like this…

E The equation or
-

number sentence is 6
x 5 = N.
In the word problem, GAPESA will be
like this…

S The 6
x 5
-

solution is
30
In the word problem, GAPESA will be
like this…

A The answer is
-

30 apples in all.
6 x 5 = 30
 6
x 5
30 Apples in all
Farmer Val harvested 10 eggs
from his hens for 7 days.
How many eggs did he
harvest in all?
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Friday Saturday Sunday

7 x 10 = 70
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Friday Saturday Sunday

7 x 10 = 70
7 x 10 = 70
eggs harvested in
all.
 c t i c e
’s P ra
L et
Mark had 5 small boxes where
he kept his marbles. He put 8
marbles inside each box. How
many marbles did he keep?
5 x 8 = 40
 5
x 8
40 Marbles were
kept in all
 Learning Target
I can solve
multiplication word
problems using the
GAPESA method
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