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Hi! I’m John.

My age is below the retirement


age (under the Philippine law). When you add
the digits of my age, the sum is 9. My age is a
multiple of 6. If my age lies between two prime
numbers, how old am I?
Under the Philippine law, the retirement age is 60.
Therefore, John’s age is below 60.
When you add the digits of his age, the sum is 9.
09, 18, 27, 36, 45,and 54
Multiple of 6.

18 18, 36, and 54


Between two prime numbers
18
PAMANTASAN NG LUNGSOD NG VALENZUELA
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT

GE4: PROBLEM
SOLVING AND
REASONING
JUSTINE N. ASUNCION
LECTURER
OBJECTIVES
1. Use different types of reasoning to justif y
statements and arguments made about
mathematics and mathematical concepts .

2. Write clear and logical proofs .

3. Organize one’s methods and approaches


for proving and solving problems .

4. Use the concept of solving word problems


in real-life applications .
According to Reisberg (2013),
Problem Solving refers to
cognitive processing directed at
achieving a goal when a
problem solver does not initially
know a solution method. Problem
solving solution methods, ways
and techniques differ.
George Polya (1887-1985) was
born in Hungary and moved to
United States in 1940 to study in
Standford University. He published
10 books and a number of articles
for Mathematics journals. How to
solve it (1945) is one of his best
known. In this book, he outlined a
strategy for solving problems.
PREDICT THE NEXT NUMBER

1, 3, 6, 10, 15, …
+2 +3 +4 +5 +6

21
PREDICT THE NEXT NUMBER

80, 70, 61, 53, 46, 40


-10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5

35
PREDICT THE NEXT NUMBER

3, 7, 5, 10, 7, 13, …
+2 +3 +2 +3 +2

9
PREDICT THE NEXT LETTER

𝑂,
one
𝑇, 𝑇,
three
𝐹, 𝐹, 𝑆, 𝑆, 𝐸,
five six seven eight
…
two four

N
nine
In a line of crewmates, Yellow is fifth from either end. How
many people are they in the line?

9
All the seats of a

4
bus is occupied and
six are standing. At
the next bus stop,
13 persons got off
and 3 got in. How
many seats are
empty on the next
bus stop?
Three kids, (Angelo, Emmanuel,
and Erika) have three different
favorite superheroes, (Batman,
Spiderman, and Superman).
Their ages are 6, 8, and 10.
From the clues below, find who is
who.
KID AGE SUPERHERO
Angelo likes Spiderman.
Emmanuel doesn’t like
Angelo 6 Spiderman
Superman.
The youngest kid likes
Spiderman. Emmanuel 10 Batman
The age of the kid who likes
Superman is 8. Erika 8 Superman
.
Six fishes (Pirena, Alena, Ibrahim,
Akil, Danaya, and Amihan) always
Danaya Akil swim together. From the following
clues provided, find who is who.
Alena Pirena thinks her stripes are the
most beautiful.
Alena always swims between
her two spotted friends, Ibrahim
and Akil.
Danaya is helping Akil
remember the routine and swims in
Pirena front of him.
Amihan is upset because she
doesn’t have any dots or stripes.
Solve for the weight of each shape
shown in the figure.
80
8
6
5
One cut of a string
produces two Number of Cuts Number of Piece
pieces. Two cuts 1 2
produce three 2 3
pieces. Three cuts 3 4
produce four 5 6
pieces. How many 21 22
pieces are
produced by five
cuts and by
twenty-one cuts?
A light bulb inspector found an alarmingly high number
of defective bulbs in a recent shipment. Of the 30 bulbs
she selected to test, she found 12 bulbs to be defective.
How many might she expect to be defective out of a
shipment of 420 bulbs?

420
= 14 batches

168
30

14 batches × 12 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 =
How many squares are there in the figure?

30
How many triangles are there in the figure?

5 6
4 1 2 9 11 2
3 4 10 12
7 8

12
2
4

4
28
Adam, Adele, Taylor, and Prince were recently elected as the new class officers (President, Vice
President, Secretary, and Treasurer) of the Supreme Student Council at PLV. From the following
clues, determine which position each holds.
Adam and the Secretary are both the same age, and they are the youngest members of the
group.
Prince is younger than the President but older than the Treasurer.
Taylor and the secretary are next-door neighbors.

President V. President Secretary Treasurer

Adam X X X YES
Adele X X YES X
Taylor YES X X X
Prince X YES X X

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