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: ____________
1Omar has 2 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Omar make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
2Two numbers add up to 19. The bigger one is 7 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
3Two numbers add up to 33. The bigger one is 3 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
4Two numbers add up to 12. The bigger one is 2 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
5Two numbers add up to 40. The bigger one is 6 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
6Two numbers add up to 24. The bigger one is 4 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
7Two numbers add up to 44. The bigger one is 10 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
8I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 1 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 5. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
9I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 1 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 13. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
10I 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: ______________
11Two numbers add up to 19. The bigger one is 5 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
12I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 5 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 7. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 6 outfits
- 2. 13
- 3. 18
- 4. 7
- 5. 23
- 6. 14
- 7. 27
- 8. 32
- 9. 76
- 10. 21
- 11. 12
- 12. 61
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