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: ____________
1The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
2What comes next? 6, 11, 16, 21, ?
Answer: ______________
3The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
4What comes next? 5, 10, 15, 20, ?
Answer: ______________
5I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 7. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
6I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 6. Now I have 5. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
7I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 8. Now I have 6. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 9. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 7. Now I have 10. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
10I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 7. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
11I am more than 22 and less than 26, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
12I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 8. Now I have 5. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 2
- 2. 26
- 3. 5
- 4. 25
- 5. 3
- 6. 7
- 7. 10
- 8. 5
- 9. 11
- 10. 5
- 11. 24
- 12. 9
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