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 = 42
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 58
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 3 = 54
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 4 = 48
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 2 = 38
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 2 = 32
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? ☐4 × 2 = 28
Answer: ______________
9I think of a number. I multiply it by 5, then add 1. Now I have 21. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 3 = 33
Answer: ______________
11The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
12The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 2
- 2. 9
- 3. 8
- 4. 1
- 5. 7
- 6. 9
- 7. 1
- 8. 1
- 9. 4
- 10. 1
- 11. 5
- 12. 2
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