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? ☐9 × 4 = 116
Answer: ______________
25 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
3The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 3 = 81
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 4 = 92
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 3 = 96
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 4 = 44
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 3 = 90
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 4 = 96
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 4 = 88
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 3 = 33
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 3 = 51
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 2
- 2. 10 handshakes
- 3. 9
- 4. 7
- 5. 3
- 6. 3
- 7. 1
- 8. 0
- 9. 4
- 10. 2
- 11. 1
- 12. 1
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