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: ____________
1What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 3 = 93
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 3 = 72
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 4 = 100
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 3 = 84
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 4 = 116
Answer: ______________
73 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
8What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 3 = 96
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 3 = 60
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐0 × 4 = 120
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 2 = 64
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 4 = 124
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 3
- 2. 4
- 3. 2
- 4. 5
- 5. 8
- 6. 9
- 7. 3 handshakes
- 8. 2
- 9. 0
- 10. 3
- 11. 2
- 12. 1
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