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 × 4 = 68
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 2 = 56
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 3 = 63
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 3 = 45
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 3 = 99
Answer: ______________
7I think of a number. I multiply it by 5, then add 7. Now I have 32. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 42
Answer: ______________
93 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
10What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 40
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 3 = 87
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 52
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 1
- 2. 9
- 3. 2
- 4. 2
- 5. 5
- 6. 3
- 7. 5
- 8. 1
- 9. 3 handshakes
- 10. 0
- 11. 9
- 12. 6
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