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? 3☐ × 3 = 93
Answer: ______________
23 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
3What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 4 = 132
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 3 = 54
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 3 = 93
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 4 = 60
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 3 = 45
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 4 = 108
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 4 = 52
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 3 = 84
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 3 = 81
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 1
- 2. 3 handshakes
- 3. 3
- 4. 6
- 5. 1
- 6. 3
- 7. 1
- 8. 1
- 9. 2
- 10. 1
- 11. 2
- 12. 2
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