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?
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St ory
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- A- What is asked is P- The process that
4 bags of potatoes how many potatoes we are going to use
7 pieces inside each did she buy in all? is multiplication.
bag

S- The solution is A- The answer

E- The equation or
number sentence is 4
4 is 28 potatoes in
x 7 = N. all.
x 7
28
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- A- What is asked is P- The process that
6 boxes how many apples we are going to use
5 apples inside did she buy in all? is multiplication.

E- The equation or S- The solution is A- The answer

number sentence is 6
x 5 = N. 6 is 30 apples in
x 5 all.
30
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?
In the word problem, GAPESA will be like this…
G- A- What is asked is P- The process that
7 number of days how many eggs did we are going to use
Farmer Val he harvest in all? is multiplication.
harvested
10 number of eggs
harvested S- The solution is A- The answer
is 70 eggs were
E- The equation or
7 x 10 = 70 harvested in 7
number sentence is 7 days.
x 10 = N.
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.
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Mark had 5 small boxes where
he kept his marbles. He put 8
marbles inside each box. How
many marbles did he keep?
In the word problem, GAPESA will be like this…
G- A- What is asked is P- The process that
5 the number of how many marbles we are going to use
Mark’s boxes did he keep? is multiplication.
8 number of marbles
placed in each box
S- The solution is A- The answer
E- The equation or 5 is 40 marbles
number sentence is 5 x 8 were kept in all.
x 8 = N.
40
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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