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? 7☐ + 7 = 79
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 4 = 17
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 6☐ + 6 = 69
Answer: ______________
4I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 8. Now I have 1. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 4☐ + 5 = 47
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 6☐ + 1 = 62
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 1 = 14
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 6. Now I have 11. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9What comes next? 4, 14, 24, 34, ?
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 3☐ + 7 = 37
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 8☐ + 1 = 84
Answer: ______________
12I am more than 11 and less than 15, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 2
- 2. 3
- 3. 3
- 4. 6
- 5. 2
- 6. 1
- 7. 3
- 8. 12
- 9. 44
- 10. 0
- 11. 3
- 12. 13
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