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 3, then take away 5. Now I have 5. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
2I am more than 42 and less than 46, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
3What comes next? 11, 13, 15, 17, ?
Answer: ______________
4The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
5I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 11. Now I have 5. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
6The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7What comes next? 8, 18, 28, 38, ?
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 12. Now I have 3. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9I am more than 46 and less than 50, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
10I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 6. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
11What comes next? 10, 20, 30, 40, ?
Answer: ______________
12I am more than 47 and less than 51, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 7
- 2. 44
- 3. 19
- 4. 2
- 5. 12
- 6. 3
- 7. 48
- 8. 11
- 9. 48
- 10. 5
- 11. 50
- 12. 49
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