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? 12, 22, 32, 42, ?
Answer: ______________
2I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 8. Now I have 4. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
3I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 3. Now I have 12. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
4What comes next? 13, 15, 17, 19, ?
Answer: ______________
5I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 14. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
6The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 7. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
8What comes next? 5, 7, 9, 11, ?
Answer: ______________
9I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 16. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
10I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 4. Now I have 8. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
11I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 5. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
12I am more than 5 and less than 9, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 52
- 2. 9
- 3. 11
- 4. 21
- 5. 12
- 6. 3
- 7. 5
- 8. 13
- 9. 12
- 10. 6
- 11. 2
- 12. 7
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