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: ____________
1Lily has 3 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Lily make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
2Two numbers add up to 25. The bigger one is 9 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: ______________
4I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 1 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 3. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
5Kai 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
6Two numbers add up to 23. The bigger one is 5 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
7Two numbers add up to 29. The bigger one is 5 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
8Two numbers add up to 5. The bigger one is 1 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
9I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 3 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 9. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
10Two numbers add up to 24. The bigger one is 4 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
11Two numbers add up to 6. The bigger one is 2 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
12Rosa has 2 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Rosa make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 9 outfits
- 2. 17
- 3. 21
- 4. 21
- 5. 12 outfits
- 6. 14
- 7. 17
- 8. 3
- 9. 63
- 10. 14
- 11. 4
- 12. 6 outfits
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