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? 2☐ × 3 = 75
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 3 = 39
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 3 = 93
Answer: ______________
43 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
5What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 2 = 66
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 4 = 64
Answer: ______________
7I think of a number. I multiply it by 3, then add 4. Now I have 10. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 4 = 56
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 4 = 124
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 52
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 3 = 81
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 3
- 3. 3
- 4. 3 handshakes
- 5. 3
- 6. 1
- 7. 2
- 8. 4
- 9. 3
- 10. 1
- 11. 6
- 12. 2
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