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 am more than 12 and less than 16, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
2The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
3What comes next? 8, 13, 18, 23, ?
Answer: ______________
4I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 6. Now I have 7. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
5I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 1. Now I have 9. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
6I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 8. Now I have 6. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
7I am more than 17 and less than 21, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 5. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 11. Now I have 4. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
10The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11I am more than 8 and less than 12, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
12I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 7. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 14
- 2. 2
- 3. 28
- 4. 10
- 5. 8
- 6. 10
- 7. 19
- 8. 3
- 9. 10
- 10. 5
- 11. 10
- 12. 2
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