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☐ + 4 = 19
Answer: ______________
2What comes next? 14, 16, 18, 20, ?
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 2☐ + 4 = 27
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 6☐ + 3 = 66
Answer: ______________
5I think of a number. I add 4, then take away 5. Now I have 4. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 8 = 79
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 5☐ + 7 = 59
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 5☐ + 1 = 56
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 4☐ + 2 = 44
Answer: ______________
10The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11What comes next? 3, 5, 7, 9, ?
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 2☐ + 1 = 25
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 22
- 3. 3
- 4. 3
- 5. 5
- 6. 1
- 7. 2
- 8. 5
- 9. 2
- 10. 3
- 11. 11
- 12. 4
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