πagarwalmath · 1st grade · Common Core MP.1

🚀 Challenge puzzles

Make sense of problems and keep at them (puzzles that need thinking, not a known method)

Name: ______________________Date: ____________

1I am more than 40 and less than 44, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
2I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 3. Now I have 14. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
3What comes next? 18, 28, 38, 48, ?
Answer: ______________
4I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 4. Now I have 10. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
5I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 11. Now I have 4. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
6I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 8. Now I have 3. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
7I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 7. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 6. Now I have 10. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 7. Now I have 5. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
10I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 1. Now I have 15. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
11I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 4. Now I have 11. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
12I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 1. Now I have 11. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________

Answer key: Challenge puzzles

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