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? 3☐ × 2 = 62
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 3 = 66
Answer: ______________
4I think of a number. I multiply it by 5, then add 7. Now I have 27. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 4 = 128
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
76 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 = 99
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 3 = 96
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 2 = 28
Answer: ______________
12The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 3
- 2. 1
- 3. 2
- 4. 4
- 5. 3
- 6. 1
- 7. 15 handshakes
- 8. 3
- 9. 3
- 10. 3
- 11. 4
- 12. 4
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