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☐ × 4 = 100
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? ☐4 × 3 = 72
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? ☐4 × 2 = 28
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
66 friends meet. Each friend shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
Answer: ______________ handshakes
7What digit goes in the box? ☐9 × 4 = 116
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 2 = 42
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 2 = 34
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 4 = 64
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 3 = 75
Answer: ______________
12The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 1
- 3. 2
- 4. 1
- 5. 4
- 6. 15 handshakes
- 7. 2
- 8. 2
- 9. 7
- 10. 1
- 11. 5
- 12. 6
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