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 4, then take away 6. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
2I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 1. Now I have 11. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
3I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 5. Now I have 4. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
4I am more than 26 and less than 30, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
5I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 6. Now I have 3. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
6I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 1. Now I have 12. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
7I am more than 30 and less than 34, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 8. Now I have 8. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 13. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
10I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 1. Now I have 14. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
11I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 7. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
12I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 7. Now I have 3. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 4
- 2. 10
- 3. 5
- 4. 28
- 5. 5
- 6. 9
- 7. 32
- 8. 11
- 9. 12
- 10. 10
- 11. 3
- 12. 8
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