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☐ + 4 = 58
Answer: ______________
2What comes next? 6, 8, 10, 12, ?
Answer: ______________
3What comes next? 7, 9, 11, 13, ?
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 5☐ + 1 = 56
Answer: ______________
5I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 7. Now I have 8. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
6I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 2. Now I have 8. What number did I start with?
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? 7☐ + 1 = 71
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 6☐ + 5 = 69
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 2 = 13
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 6☐ + 2 = 64
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 2 = 12
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 4
- 2. 14
- 3. 15
- 4. 5
- 5. 11
- 6. 4
- 7. 5
- 8. 0
- 9. 4
- 10. 1
- 11. 2
- 12. 0
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