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 5. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 8 = 79
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 5☐ + 6 = 58
Answer: ______________
4The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 8☐ + 4 = 87
Answer: ______________
6I am more than 12 and less than 16, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 5☐ + 4 = 57
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 5 = 17
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 2☐ + 6 = 27
Answer: ______________
10The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 5☐ + 3 = 56
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 5 = 78
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 2
- 2. 1
- 3. 2
- 4. 5
- 5. 3
- 6. 14
- 7. 3
- 8. 2
- 9. 1
- 10. 3
- 11. 3
- 12. 3
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