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 comes next? 4, 9, 14, 19, ?
Answer: ______________
2I am more than 42 and less than 46, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
3I am more than 20 and less than 24, and I am even. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 2 = 14
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 4☐ + 5 = 45
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 1☐ + 2 = 15
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 4☐ + 7 = 49
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 8. Now I have 4. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 6☐ + 4 = 65
Answer: ______________
10I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 12. Now I have 4. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
11I am more than 45 and less than 49, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 4☐ + 3 = 46
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24
- 2. 44
- 3. 22
- 4. 2
- 5. 0
- 6. 3
- 7. 2
- 8. 6
- 9. 1
- 10. 10
- 11. 47
- 12. 3
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