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: ____________
1The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
2I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 12. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 5 = 18
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 3☐ + 2 = 33
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 6☐ + 6 = 66
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 4☐ + 5 = 47
Answer: ______________
7The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 2☐ + 2 = 25
Answer: ______________
9The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 2 = 16
Answer: ______________
12I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 4. Now I have 14. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 8
- 3. 3
- 4. 1
- 5. 0
- 6. 2
- 7. 2
- 8. 3
- 9. 4
- 10. 2
- 11. 4
- 12. 12
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