πagarwalmath · 3rd 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: ____________
1I think of a number. I multiply it by 4, then add 5. Now I have 25. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
2I think of a number. I multiply it by 2, then add 7. Now I have 23. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
3I think of a number. I multiply it by 3, then add 6. Now I have 12. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
4The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
6I think of a number. I multiply it by 3, then add 9. Now I have 27. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I multiply it by 4, then add 7. Now I have 23. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
12I think of a number. I multiply it by 4, then add 2. Now I have 22. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 8
- 3. 2
- 4. 2
- 5. 8
- 6. 6
- 7. 4
- 8. 4
- 9. 6
- 10. 8
- 11. 9
- 12. 5
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