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: ____________
1The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 6☐ + 5 = 67
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 1 = 11
Answer: ______________
4I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 2. Now I have 10. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 8☐ + 6 = 86
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 2 = 75
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 4 = 15
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 8☐ + 1 = 82
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 3☐ + 2 = 36
Answer: ______________
10I am more than 14 and less than 18, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
11What comes next? 11, 16, 21, 26, ?
Answer: ______________
12I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 4. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 2
- 3. 0
- 4. 9
- 5. 0
- 6. 3
- 7. 1
- 8. 1
- 9. 4
- 10. 16
- 11. 31
- 12. 2
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