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 20. The bigger one is 10 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
2Two numbers add up to 38. The bigger one is 6 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
3I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 3 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 7. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
4Two numbers add up to 21. The bigger one is 5 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
5Two numbers add up to 19. The bigger one is 9 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
6Two numbers add up to 34. The bigger one is 4 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
7Omar has 4 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Omar make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
8Two numbers add up to 14. The bigger one is 8 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
9I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 8 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 10. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
10Two numbers add up to 20. The bigger one is 4 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
11Nora has 2 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Nora make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
12Two numbers add up to 14. The bigger one is 4 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 15
- 2. 22
- 3. 52
- 4. 13
- 5. 14
- 6. 19
- 7. 8 outfits
- 8. 11
- 9. 91
- 10. 12
- 11. 4 outfits
- 12. 9
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