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 6, then take away 7. Now I have 5. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 6 = 16
Answer: ______________
3What comes next? 19, 29, 39, 49, ?
Answer: ______________
4The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 5☐ + 1 = 53
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 2☐ + 4 = 27
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 3☐ + 5 = 39
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 8☐ + 1 = 86
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 2 = 15
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 3☐ + 2 = 37
Answer: ______________
11The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 2 = 13
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 6
- 2. 0
- 3. 59
- 4. 5
- 5. 2
- 6. 3
- 7. 4
- 8. 5
- 9. 3
- 10. 5
- 11. 3
- 12. 1
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