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? 5☐ + 3 = 57
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 2☐ + 2 = 22
Answer: ______________
3The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
4I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 6. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 4☐ + 5 = 48
Answer: ______________
6I am more than 41 and less than 45, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 4☐ + 5 = 45
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 4. Now I have 4. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 4 = 78
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 1 = 74
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 4☐ + 6 = 47
Answer: ______________
12What comes next? 18, 28, 38, 48, ?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 4
- 2. 0
- 3. 5
- 4. 6
- 5. 3
- 6. 43
- 7. 0
- 8. 3
- 9. 4
- 10. 3
- 11. 1
- 12. 58
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