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? 4☐ + 7 = 49
Answer: ______________
2I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 2. Now I have 6. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 4☐ + 8 = 49
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 6 = 19
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 7☐ + 2 = 72
Answer: ______________
6I am more than 36 and less than 40, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
7The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
8The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 8 = 18
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 8☐ + 2 = 85
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 3☐ + 1 = 33
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 2☐ + 2 = 24
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 2
- 2. 2
- 3. 1
- 4. 3
- 5. 0
- 6. 38
- 7. 5
- 8. 3
- 9. 0
- 10. 3
- 11. 2
- 12. 2
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