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 2, then add 3. Now I have 13. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
2I think of a number. I multiply it by 4, then add 6. Now I have 42. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
3I think of a number. I multiply it by 4, then add 2. Now I have 30. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
4I think of a number. I multiply it by 4, then add 3. Now I have 19. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
5The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
10The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11I think of a number. I multiply it by 5, then add 1. Now I have 41. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
12I think of a number. I multiply it by 2, then add 6. Now I have 24. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 9
- 3. 7
- 4. 4
- 5. 4
- 6. 4
- 7. 4
- 8. 8
- 9. 3
- 10. 7
- 11. 8
- 12. 9
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