First Grade Challenging Math

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1-1) Mary lives in an apartment building. There are 3 levels above her and 2 levels
below her. How many levels are there in the building?

1-2) Draw the following shapes in one stroke without lifting the pencil and without
retracing the same line.

1-3) Find the sequence and fill in the blanks

a) 17, 15, 13, __, 9, 7, __, __

b) 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 5, __, __, 2, 7, __, __, __

c) 6, 11, 16, 21, __, __, 36, 41

1-4) How many squares and triangles are there in the following drawing?
 1-5) Find 3 different ways to fill in the blanks. Do not use zeros.

6 = __ + __ + __ 6 = __ + __ + __ 6 = __ + __ + __

1-6) Kate started to read chapter books. She read 1 book in January, 2 books in
February, 3 books in March. If she continues to read 1 more book each month, how many
books in all would she have read by the end of April? How many books in all would she
have read by the end of May?

1-7) Calculate

a) 5 + 10 + 15 = b) 6 + 11 + 3 =

c) 2 + 9 + 9 = d) 3 + 0 + 12 + 4 =

1-8) Ming bought 2 books. The total cost is $6. If one book costs $2 more than the
other, how much does each book cost?

1-9) Fill in the blanks.

8 + 4 = 5 + __ 5 + 11 = __ + 10

9 + __ = 18 + 2 24 + __ = 16 + 8 __ + 33 = 17 + 27

1-10) How many rectangles do you see?

1-11) How many rectangles do you see?

1-12) Fill in the blanks

10 - __ = 5 12 - __ = 7 16 - __ = 9

__ - 7 = 11 __ - 5 = 17

1-13) How many blocks are there in each stack?

1-14) Matt has 4 more cars than Jordan has. How many cars does Matt need to give
Jordan so they have the same number of cars?

1-15) Vicky has 8 more pencils than Cathy has. How many pencils does Vicky need to
give Cathy to make them have the same number of pencils?

1-16) Amy and her sister Mary like grapes. Their mom tries to give them the same
number of grapes one day. She puts grapes into 2 bowls. At first, Amy's bowl has 18
more grapes than Mary's bowl. How many grapes does Amy need to give Mary so they
have the same number of grapes?

1-17) Find the sequence and fill in the blanks

a) 17, 15, 13, __, 9, 7 b) 11, 22, __, __, 55, __, 77

c) 3, 6, __, 12, __, 18

1-18) What is the largest odd number between 10 and 30?

1-19) What is the largest even number between 1 and 99 that has 1 digit?

1-20) Fill the 9 squares with numbers 1, 2, and 3 so that the sum of 3 numbers in all
rows, columns and diagonals are the same.

1-21) Fill the squares so the sum of the 3 numbers in all rows, columns and diagonals
equal to 18.

1-22) How many books did Zack, Joey and Jane read altogether in 1 week? How many
more books did Jane read than Joey?
1-23) A bagel costs 30 cents. Tim wants to buy 3 bagels. How much money does he
need?

1-24) Kevin cleans up the neighbor's yard for $6 a day. One week he cleaned up on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday. How much money did he earn on that weekend?

1-25) How many shaded squares are there? Can you find a fast way to count and add
them?

1-26) Today is Tuesday. What day of the week is 6 days from today?

1-27) Today is Monday. What day of the week is 8 days from today?
1-28) Today is Saturday. What day of the week is 4 days after tomorrow?

1-29) The following drawing has 4 lines. Which line is the longest?

1-30) The following drawing has 2 lines. Which line is longer?

1-31) Fill each square with a single digit number and make the subtraction correct.

1-32) Zareena went for a walk with her dad. They started at 5:20 pm and finished at
5:45 pm. How long was their walk?
1-33) A soccer game starts at 9:00 am. The game is 50 minutes long. When will the
game end?

1-34) Draw the following shapes in one stroke without lifting the pencil and without
retracing the same line.

(a) (b)

1-35) 2-digit subtractions:

56 - 22 = 38 - 24 =

89 - 40 = 79 - 34 =

65 - 25 = 67 - 24 =

1-36) Greg's soccer team had 12 kids. 2 more kids joined the team later. Half of all the
team members play piano. How many of those kids play piano?

1-37) Fill the empty circles so that the sum of the 3 numbers on each side of the triangle
is 17.
1-38) Add across and down.

1-39) Calculate

7 + 20 + 13 = 5 + 21 + 4 =

3+8+9= 13 + 12 + 4 =

1-40) It takes 3 tooth picks to form a triangle. Can you form two triangles using 5
toothpicks?