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: ____________
16 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
2What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 4 = 124
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 2 = 26
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 2 = 60
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐0 × 4 = 120
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 2 = 42
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 2 = 36
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 3 = 33
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 2 = 56
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 15 handshakes
- 2. 1
- 3. 3
- 4. 1
- 5. 0
- 6. 3
- 7. 2
- 8. 9
- 9. 1
- 10. 7
- 11. 1
- 12. 2
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