πagarwalmath · 2nd 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: ____________
1Two numbers add up to 42. The bigger one is 10 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
2Two numbers add up to 11. The bigger one is 1 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
3Two numbers add up to 41. The bigger one is 1 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
4Two numbers add up to 8. The bigger one is 4 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
5Two numbers add up to 29. The bigger one is 9 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
6I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 3 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 3. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
7Kai has 4 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Kai make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
8Two numbers add up to 46. The bigger one is 6 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
9Two numbers add up to 28. The bigger one is 2 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
10Jamal has 2 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Jamal make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
11I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 2 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 16. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
12I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 1 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 15. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 26
- 2. 6
- 3. 21
- 4. 6
- 5. 19
- 6. 30
- 7. 12 outfits
- 8. 26
- 9. 15
- 10. 4 outfits
- 11. 97
- 12. 87
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