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 think of a number. I add 4, then take away 5. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
2What comes next? 11, 13, 15, 17, ?
Answer: ______________
3I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 7. Now I have 4. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
4I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 14. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
5The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 2. Now I have 10. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
7I am more than 36 and less than 40, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
8I am more than 47 and less than 51, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
9I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 2. Now I have 8. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
10I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 11. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
11The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
12The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 3
- 2. 19
- 3. 5
- 4. 10
- 5. 4
- 6. 9
- 7. 38
- 8. 49
- 9. 5
- 10. 9
- 11. 2
- 12. 5
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