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 comes next? 5, 7, 9, 11, ?
Answer: ______________
2I am more than 25 and less than 29, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 2☐ + 5 = 29
Answer: ______________
4The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 5 = 77
Answer: ______________
6I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 6. Now I have 8. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 4 = 77
Answer: ______________
8The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
9The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 7 = 18
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 7 = 19
Answer: ______________
12What comes next? 20, 22, 24, 26, ?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 13
- 2. 27
- 3. 4
- 4. 5
- 5. 2
- 6. 9
- 7. 3
- 8. 5
- 9. 4
- 10. 1
- 11. 2
- 12. 28
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