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: ____________
1Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
23 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
3I think of a number. I multiply it by 4, then add 4. Now I have 12. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
4I think of a number. I multiply it by 4, then add 3. Now I have 15. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
54 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
6I think of a number. I multiply it by 5, then add 9. Now I have 44. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
76 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
8The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
10The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
125 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 8
- 2. 3 handshakes
- 3. 2
- 4. 3
- 5. 6 handshakes
- 6. 7
- 7. 15 handshakes
- 8. 6
- 9. 3
- 10. 2
- 11. 9
- 12. 10 handshakes
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