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: ____________
1I think of a number. I multiply it by 5, then add 9. Now I have 44. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 4 = 132
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 3 = 51
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 4 = 64
Answer: ______________
5The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 3 = 78
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 4 = 108
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 3 = 99
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 4 = 92
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐4 × 2 = 48
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 3 = 45
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 4 = 96
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 7
- 2. 3
- 3. 7
- 4. 6
- 5. 8
- 6. 2
- 7. 2
- 8. 3
- 9. 2
- 10. 2
- 11. 1
- 12. 4
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