Problem-Solving Skills Extra Challenge Grade 1 Worksheets

Unlock your first grader's potential with our engaging Problem-Solving Skills Extra Challenge Worksheets! Designed specifically for Grade 1 students, these worksheets provide fun, interactive activities that enhance critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. Each worksheet encourages children to tackle various challenges, fostering creativity and logical reasoning. From puzzles to basic math problems, your child will enjoy exploring different scenarios while building their confidence in tackling complex tasks. Ideal for parents and educators seeking to reinforce essential skills, our worksheets are easy to print and suitable for home or classroom use. Empower your young learners today with these added problem-solving challenges!


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Checkmating Patterns: King and Queen Mate

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Circus Math Printable Worksheet
Circus Math Printable Worksheet

Circus Math Printable

Let's take the kids to the circus and combine literacy and numeracy skills! Our circus math printable worksheet will encourage creativity and higher-order thinking by connecting addition to real-life examples. Kids will learn to love math while they explore the fun, real-life applications of math. Ignite their passion today!
Circus Math Printable
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Counting Maze Up to 20 Printable
Counting Maze Up to 20 Printable

Monkey Math Worksheet

Try our printable maze to 20 for an enjoyable challenge.
Monkey Math Worksheet
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King and Queen Mate Strategy: Part 2 Worksheet
King and Queen Mate Strategy: Part 2 Worksheet

King and Queen Mate Strategy: Part 2 Worksheet

This worksheet helps your child learn to checkmate the opposing king with their king and queen. Descriptive sample boards show the strategy, and more boards help determine which one demonstrates how the king assists the queen.
King and Queen Mate Strategy: Part 2 Worksheet
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Properties of Addition Maze: Voting Worksheet
Properties of Addition Maze: Voting Worksheet

Properties of Addition Maze: Voting Worksheet

The good citizen in the worksheet needs your child's help to vote. Ask them to draw a line through all equations with correct sums to get the citizen to the polls. Voting is the right and obligation of all good citizens. It helps elect the right candidates and exercise legal rights.
Properties of Addition Maze: Voting Worksheet
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Busy Farmers: Problem Matching Worksheet
Busy Farmers: Problem Matching Worksheet

Busy Farmers: Problem Matching Worksheet

Farming is tough, so help your mathematician out with this fun and stimulating worksheet! They'll read word problems and connect each to its correct picture, using traceable lines. They'll practice addition with three addends, and use the harvest veg pictures to ensure accuracy.
Busy Farmers: Problem Matching Worksheet
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Getting out of Check: Run Away Worksheet
Getting out of Check: Run Away Worksheet

Getting out of Check: Run Away Worksheet

Playing chess boosts your children's brainpower and this worksheet helps them out of sticky situations. It teaches them how to flee with their king to avoid checkmate, as well as how to initiate their own strategic moves on the board. Get your kids on the road to success with this helpful PDF.
Getting out of Check: Run Away Worksheet
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Halloween Problem Solving Worksheet
Halloween Problem Solving Worksheet

Halloween Problem Solving Worksheet

Halloween math is here! Get your spooky word problems and frightfully cute images with this free PDF worksheet. Read the problems with your little one and focus on the numbers and key phrases. Then match the equation to its solution to complete the page. Calling all ghosts and goblins - have some math fun this Halloween!
Halloween Problem Solving Worksheet
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Skip Counting by Fives
Skip Counting by Fives

Skip Counting by 5s: Outer Space Math Printable

Let your kid learn skip counting by fives with this fun space-themed worksheet! With simple instructions, cute graphics, and an independent approach, your child will have a blast and gain a key skill for math success. Counting answers and learning numeracy, they'll sharpen cognitive and problem solving skills while having fun! A great way to introduce skip counting, they'll discover the concept through minimal assistance. Blast off!
Skip Counting by 5s: Outer Space Math Printable
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Direct Check: Puzzle 3 Worksheet
Direct Check: Puzzle 3 Worksheet

Direct Check: Puzzle 3 Worksheet

Chess is a great way to help your child develop their strategic, mathematical, and thinking skills. Test their understanding with this simple worksheet: they must get the black king in checkmate with white pieces, then select the notation that shows the correct move. See just how much progress they've made!
Direct Check: Puzzle 3 Worksheet
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Tree Graph Worksheet
Tree Graph Worksheet

Tree Graph Worksheet

Help your child/students learn to read graphs and report data. With this colorful worksheet, the different types of trees in a school's garden are listed in a bar graph. Guide them through viewing it and answering the questions. To extend the lesson, have them create a tree graph to list the trees at their own school or home.
Tree Graph Worksheet
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Sweets Maze Learn Fractions
Sweets Maze Learn Fractions

Fractions: Sweets Maze Worksheet

Kids will enjoy mastering parts of a whole with this tantalizing maze featuring tasty treats. Visuals help them understand fractions and the fun theme will motivate them to learn! Get started now to help your child find and identify ½!
Fractions: Sweets Maze Worksheet
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What is Checkmate? Worksheet
What is Checkmate? Worksheet

What is Checkmate? Worksheet

This downloadable PDF worksheet lets your child practice identifying when a king is checkmated and how it looks on a chessboard. Checkmate is the best move and with this colorful worksheet, they'll learn that it means their opponent's king is in check and cannot be saved, so they can win!
What is Checkmate? Worksheet
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Flying Planes Worksheet
Flying Planes Worksheet

Flying Planes Worksheet

Adding the -ing suffix to verbs is a breeze with this fun worksheet! Colorful planes help your child spot the correct spelling of words that end in consonants - double the consonant, add -ing! Kids can compare correctly and incorrectly spelled words, giving them a better understanding of how the word looks correctly. Download the free PDF and get spelling!
Flying Planes Worksheet
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Check or Checkmate: Part 2 Worksheet
Check or Checkmate: Part 2 Worksheet

Check or Checkmate: Part 2 Worksheet

Chess is a fun and competitive way for your child to practice strategic thinking, problem-solving and critical reasoning. This free PDF will help them sharpen their skills, by analyzing boards and marking ones where the king can escape check. An invaluable skill when playing on real boards.
Check or Checkmate: Part 2 Worksheet
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Worksheet: pirate subtraction
Worksheet: pirate subtraction

Pirate Subtraction Substraction Worksheet

Ahoy! Learn to subtract with pirate-themed math fun! This worksheet has ships and treasure chests to help your little one understand subtraction using a helpful strategy. Colorful illustrations make it a great learning experience.
Pirate Subtraction Substraction Worksheet
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Addition and Subtraction: Equations Worksheet
Addition and Subtraction: Equations Worksheet

Addition and Subtraction: Equations Worksheet

This worksheet sharpens your child's visual processing, math equation solving and order of operations skills. It features colorful pictures to help them add and subtract, and traceable lines to identify the correct equation. A great way to practice these skills! (80 words)
Addition and Subtraction: Equations Worksheet
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Little Witch Problem Solving Worksheet
Little Witch Problem Solving Worksheet

Little Witch Problem Solving Worksheet

Help this sweet little witch! Download this worksheet and use traceable lines to connect the problems with the correct answers. Practise basic addition involving three addends and have fun doing it!
Little Witch Problem Solving Worksheet
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Picture Pattern Worksheet
Picture Pattern Worksheet

Tricky Patterns Size Worksheet

Give your child a head start on critical thinking with this picture pattern worksheet! It's an intriguingly fun way to help them master important skills like spatial reasoning, critical thinking, and logical reasoning. They'll differentiate between shapes, complete the pattern with a logical answer, and look for and understand patterns. It's the perfect foundation for future math skills, setting them up for future success!
Tricky Patterns Size Worksheet
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Subtraction Robot Sorter Worksheet
Subtraction Robot Sorter Worksheet

Subtraction Robot Sorter Worksheet

Help your child learn essential math skills with robot friends! Look at function machines and find if the rule is minus 3 or minus 6. Trace the dotted line to the robot with the correct rule when the pattern is found. Simple and delightful!
Subtraction Robot Sorter Worksheet
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Two-step word problems worksheet for 3rd grade
Two-step word problems worksheet for 3rd grade

Two Step Word Problems Worksheet

Boost your child's math skills with this fun and realistic two-step word problems worksheet! Kids will learn to break down complex multiplication word problems into easier steps to solve. Download this free PDF worksheet and help them reach the next level.
Two Step Word Problems Worksheet
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Adding and Subtracting: Instruments Worksheet
Adding and Subtracting: Instruments Worksheet

Adding and Subtracting: Instruments Worksheet

Children can help Isla count her musical instruments with this fun worksheet. The downloadable PDF gives them a chance to practice addition and subtraction by connecting pictures to equations. It's also a great way to learn the order of operations.
Adding and Subtracting: Instruments Worksheet
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Comparing Solutions Worksheet
Comparing Solutions Worksheet

Comparing Solutions Worksheet

Juan can't get his veg garden growing as he'd like, planted on a steep hill. Help your child practice problem-solving by comparing solutions and rating them from most to least effective. With this thought-provoking worksheet, learners can hone the important skill of finding the best solution from a range of options.
Comparing Solutions Worksheet
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Solution Matching: Hobbies. Part 1 Worksheet
Solution Matching: Hobbies. Part 1 Worksheet

Solution Matching: Hobbies. Part 1 Worksheet

Math problems can be made more fun and easier to solve by relating them to real-life activities. Kids Academy's free printable worksheet helps your child to do this. Read each problem, paying attention to the numbers and terms, then choose the correct equation from the options given. This will help your child to understand the problem and get the right result!
Solution Matching: Hobbies. Part 1 Worksheet
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One Move Checkmates: Puzzle 3 Worksheet
One Move Checkmates: Puzzle 3 Worksheet

One Move Checkmates: Puzzle 3 Worksheet

Boost your child's critical thinking and strategy skills with this fun puzzle activity. They'll use their logical thinking to plot ways to checkmate the black king, and then check their answer with the given choices. A great way to improve their skills and have a blast doing it!
One Move Checkmates: Puzzle 3 Worksheet
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Problem-solving skills are crucial for young learners, especially in Grade 1, as they lay the foundation for critical thinking, decision-making, and independence. In this stage of development, children are naturally curious and eager to explore their surroundings. By engaging in extra challenges focused on problem-solving, parents and teachers can foster this curiosity, encouraging students to think creatively and approach challenges from different angles.

These skills translate beyond mathematics and science; they enhance literacy and emotional intelligence by teaching children to analyze situations, ask questions, and consider multiple solutions. When parents and teachers care about nurturing problem-solving abilities, they prepare children for future academic challenges and real-life scenarios, equipping them to navigate obstacles confidently.

Additionally, problem-solving activities often promote collaboration and communication among peers. This helps Grade 1 students build social skills, empathy, and teamwork, essential traits for both personal and academic growth. By valuing and prioritizing these extra challenges, parents and teachers can create a supportive learning environment that cultivates resilient, resourceful, and critical thinkers, ensuring children are ready to succeed in school and life.