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 2, then take away 3. Now I have 4. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
2I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 2. Now I have 10. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
3I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 3. Now I have 6. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
4I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 3. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
5I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 5. Now I have 7. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
6I am more than 29 and less than 33, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
7I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 4. Now I have 9. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
8I am more than 28 and less than 32, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
9The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11What comes next? 1, 11, 21, 31, ?
Answer: ______________
12I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 3. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 9
- 3. 7
- 4. 3
- 5. 8
- 6. 31
- 7. 7
- 8. 30
- 9. 4
- 10. 2
- 11. 41
- 12. 2
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