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 = 48
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 3 = 96
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? ☐9 × 4 = 116
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 4 = 68
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 3 = 90
Answer: ______________
6The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 4 = 96
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 4 = 76
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 = 75
Answer: ______________
11The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 2 = 26
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 2
- 2. 2
- 3. 2
- 4. 1
- 5. 0
- 6. 6
- 7. 4
- 8. 9
- 9. 6 handshakes
- 10. 2
- 11. 2
- 12. 3
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