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? ☐7 × 2 = 34
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 2 = 46
Answer: ______________
35 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
4What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 4 = 112
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
6I think of a number. I multiply it by 5, then add 7. Now I have 32. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
76 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
8What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 4 = 116
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 3 = 48
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 3 = 66
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 3 = 69
Answer: ______________
12The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 1
- 2. 2
- 3. 10 handshakes
- 4. 8
- 5. 6
- 6. 5
- 7. 15 handshakes
- 8. 9
- 9. 1
- 10. 2
- 11. 3
- 12. 9
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