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 digit goes in the box? 8☐ + 1 = 86
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 5☐ + 4 = 56
Answer: ______________
3I am more than 25 and less than 29, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 1 = 74
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 8☐ + 6 = 87
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 5☐ + 1 = 56
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 8☐ + 3 = 84
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 2 = 76
Answer: ______________
9What comes next? 1, 6, 11, 16, ?
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 2 = 14
Answer: ______________
11I am more than 41 and less than 45, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
12I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 16. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 2
- 3. 27
- 4. 3
- 5. 1
- 6. 5
- 7. 1
- 8. 4
- 9. 21
- 10. 2
- 11. 43
- 12. 12
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