πagarwalmath · Kindergarten · 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 am more than 17 and less than 19. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
2One 🍎 balances 2 blocks. How many blocks balance 3 🍎?
Answer: ______________ blocks
3One 🍐 balances 2 blocks. How many blocks balance 3 🍐?
Answer: ______________ blocks
4What comes next in the pattern?
- A🐞
- B⭐
- C🌸
5What comes next in the pattern?
- A🐟
- B🌸
- C🍎
6One 🍌 balances 2 blocks. How many blocks balance 2 🍌?
Answer: ______________ blocks
7One 🍓 balances 2 blocks. How many blocks balance 3 🍓?
Answer: ______________ blocks
8One 🍐 balances 3 blocks. How many blocks balance 2 🍐?
Answer: ______________ blocks
9One 🍓 balances 2 blocks. How many blocks balance 2 🍓?
Answer: ______________ blocks
10One 🍊 balances 2 blocks. How many blocks balance 2 🍊?
Answer: ______________ blocks
11One 🍊 balances 2 blocks. How many blocks balance 3 🍊?
Answer: ______________ blocks
12I am more than 13 and less than 15. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 18
- 2. 6 blocks
- 3. 6 blocks
- 4. C (🌸)
- 5. C (🍎)
- 6. 4 blocks
- 7. 6 blocks
- 8. 6 blocks
- 9. 4 blocks
- 10. 4 blocks
- 11. 6 blocks
- 12. 14
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