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: ____________
15 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
24 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
33 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
5The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
66 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
7I think of a number. I multiply it by 5, then add 6. Now I have 51. What number did I start with?
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 middle right box?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
11The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
12The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 10 handshakes
- 2. 6 handshakes
- 3. 3 handshakes
- 4. 7
- 5. 8
- 6. 15 handshakes
- 7. 9
- 8. 2
- 9. 9
- 10. 1
- 11. 3
- 12. 7
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