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: ____________
1I think of a number. I multiply it by 4, then add 8. Now I have 32. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 4 = 80
Answer: ______________
35 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
4The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 52
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 3 = 63
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 2 = 32
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? ☐0 × 2 = 60
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 3 = 54
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 4 = 116
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 6
- 2. 0
- 3. 10 handshakes
- 4. 6
- 5. 8
- 6. 6
- 7. 1
- 8. 1
- 9. 3
- 10. 1
- 11. 9
- 12. 2
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