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? ☐0 × 3 = 90
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 48
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 3 = 69
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 3 = 99
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 2 = 24
Answer: ______________
75 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
8I think of a number. I multiply it by 4, then add 4. Now I have 28. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 3 = 39
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 58
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 3
- 2. 4
- 3. 3
- 4. 3
- 5. 3
- 6. 1
- 7. 10 handshakes
- 8. 6
- 9. 7
- 10. 1
- 11. 9
- 12. 6
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