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: ____________
1What comes next? 3, 5, 7, 9, ?
Answer: ______________
2The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
3I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 2. Now I have 5. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
4I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 10. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
5I am more than 46 and less than 50, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
6The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 2. Now I have 9. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 8. Now I have 5. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 12. Now I have 4. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
10What comes next? 4, 6, 8, 10, ?
Answer: ______________
11I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 7. Now I have 7. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
12The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 11
- 2. 3
- 3. 2
- 4. 9
- 5. 48
- 6. 5
- 7. 7
- 8. 10
- 9. 11
- 10. 12
- 11. 8
- 12. 5
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