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? 20, 25, 30, 35, ?
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 5☐ + 4 = 58
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 5 = 76
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 5☐ + 1 = 53
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 4☐ + 1 = 46
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 4 = 78
Answer: ______________
7I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 3. Now I have 4. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 8☐ + 3 = 87
Answer: ______________
9I am more than 18 and less than 22, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
10I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 1. Now I have 11. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 8☐ + 7 = 88
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 6☐ + 1 = 61
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 40
- 2. 4
- 3. 1
- 4. 2
- 5. 5
- 6. 4
- 7. 5
- 8. 4
- 9. 20
- 10. 10
- 11. 1
- 12. 0
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