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 3. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
2I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 5. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
3I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 6. Now I have 3. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
4I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 4. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
5I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 4. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
6I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 2. Now I have 10. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
7I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 9. Now I have 3. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 3. Now I have 7. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 6. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
10I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 8. Now I have 4. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
11I am more than 40 and less than 44, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
12I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 4. Now I have 5. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 4
- 3. 7
- 4. 4
- 5. 3
- 6. 7
- 7. 8
- 8. 5
- 9. 2
- 10. 8
- 11. 42
- 12. 6
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