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? 2☐ × 3 = 69
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 56
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? ☐0 × 2 = 40
Answer: ______________
45 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
5I think of a number. I multiply it by 5, then add 8. Now I have 33. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 50
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 40
Answer: ______________
8The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 2 = 34
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 2 = 34
Answer: ______________
11I think of a number. I multiply it by 5, then add 5. Now I have 45. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 3 = 93
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 3
- 2. 8
- 3. 2
- 4. 10 handshakes
- 5. 5
- 6. 5
- 7. 0
- 8. 4
- 9. 1
- 10. 7
- 11. 8
- 12. 3
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