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? 1☐ + 2 = 16
Answer: ______________
2I am more than 29 and less than 33, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
3The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 6☐ + 5 = 68
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 6☐ + 2 = 66
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 4 = 14
Answer: ______________
7What comes next? 2, 12, 22, 32, ?
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 3. Now I have 5. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 5☐ + 4 = 57
Answer: ______________
10I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 4. Now I have 3. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 4 = 75
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 1 = 13
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 4
- 2. 31
- 3. 5
- 4. 3
- 5. 4
- 6. 0
- 7. 42
- 8. 4
- 9. 3
- 10. 4
- 11. 1
- 12. 2
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