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☐ × 2 = 40
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? ☐0 × 3 = 90
Answer: ______________
3I think of a number. I multiply it by 2, then add 8. Now I have 18. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
4The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
55 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 3 = 69
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 2 = 46
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 2 = 32
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 3 = 75
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 2 = 54
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 0
- 2. 3
- 3. 5
- 4. 2
- 5. 10 handshakes
- 6. 7
- 7. 2
- 8. 2
- 9. 9
- 10. 6
- 11. 5
- 12. 2
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