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: ____________
14 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
2The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 4 = 68
Answer: ______________
46 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
5What digit goes in the box? ☐0 × 3 = 60
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐9 × 2 = 58
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 3 = 84
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 48
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 2 = 66
Answer: ______________
10The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
12The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 6 handshakes
- 2. 6
- 3. 1
- 4. 15 handshakes
- 5. 2
- 6. 2
- 7. 2
- 8. 4
- 9. 3
- 10. 9
- 11. 8
- 12. 8
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