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☐ × 2 = 26
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 3 = 33
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 2 = 24
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 3 = 51
Answer: ______________
5The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 46
Answer: ______________
7I think of a number. I multiply it by 2, then add 2. Now I have 16. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? ☐9 × 2 = 38
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 4 = 124
Answer: ______________
10I think of a number. I multiply it by 5, then add 6. Now I have 41. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 4 = 84
Answer: ______________
125 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 3
- 2. 1
- 3. 2
- 4. 1
- 5. 2
- 6. 3
- 7. 7
- 8. 1
- 9. 3
- 10. 7
- 11. 2
- 12. 10 handshakes
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