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? 6☐ + 6 = 67
Answer: ______________
2I think of a number. I add 5, then take away 3. Now I have 6. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 4 = 19
Answer: ______________
4What comes next? 7, 9, 11, 13, ?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 2☐ + 5 = 25
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 4☐ + 1 = 46
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 7 = 19
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 6☐ + 5 = 68
Answer: ______________
9I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 1. Now I have 5. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 8☐ + 4 = 84
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 6☐ + 4 = 69
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 3 = 77
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 1
- 2. 4
- 3. 5
- 4. 15
- 5. 0
- 6. 5
- 7. 2
- 8. 3
- 9. 4
- 10. 0
- 11. 5
- 12. 4
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