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? 13, 15, 17, 19, ?
Answer: ______________
2The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
3I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 3. Now I have 7. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
4I am more than 4 and less than 8, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
5I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 10. Now I have 4. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
6I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 3. Now I have 13. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
7I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 4. Now I have 7. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 12. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 5. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
10I am more than 24 and less than 28, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
11I am more than 25 and less than 29, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
12I am more than 27 and less than 31, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 21
- 2. 3
- 3. 8
- 4. 6
- 5. 9
- 6. 11
- 7. 9
- 8. 8
- 9. 4
- 10. 26
- 11. 27
- 12. 29
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