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☐ × 4 = 72
Answer: ______________
26 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
3What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 2 = 56
Answer: ______________
44 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
5The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 4 = 84
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 4 = 44
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 4 = 56
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 3 = 45
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 4 = 64
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 4 = 68
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 3 = 99
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 8
- 2. 15 handshakes
- 3. 2
- 4. 6 handshakes
- 5. 5
- 6. 1
- 7. 1
- 8. 4
- 9. 1
- 10. 1
- 11. 7
- 12. 3
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