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 13 and less than 17, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
2I am more than 38 and less than 42, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
3I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 2. Now I have 3. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
4I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 4. Now I have 7. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
5The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 3. Now I have 3. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 10. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9I am more than 20 and less than 24, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
10What comes next? 1, 6, 11, 16, ?
Answer: ______________
11I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 6. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
12I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 4. Now I have 11. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 15
- 2. 40
- 3. 2
- 4. 6
- 5. 4
- 6. 4
- 7. 4
- 8. 6
- 9. 22
- 10. 21
- 11. 5
- 12. 12
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