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? ☐3 × 2 = 66
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 2 = 28
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? ☐0 × 2 = 60
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
5The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6I think of a number. I multiply it by 2, then add 1. Now I have 17. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
74 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 = 84
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 × 3 = 96
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 2 = 62
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 3
- 2. 4
- 3. 3
- 4. 2
- 5. 3
- 6. 8
- 7. 6 handshakes
- 8. 1
- 9. 3 handshakes
- 10. 3
- 11. 6
- 12. 3
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