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