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? ☐7 × 4 = 108
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 3 = 96
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 4 = 132
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 4 = 112
Answer: ______________
5I think of a number. I multiply it by 2, then add 8. Now I have 18. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 2 = 46
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 2 = 28
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 4 = 88
Answer: ______________
94 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
10What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 3 = 45
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 48
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 2
- 2. 2
- 3. 3
- 4. 8
- 5. 5
- 6. 2
- 7. 4
- 8. 2
- 9. 6 handshakes
- 10. 1
- 11. 3
- 12. 4
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