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 40. The bigger one is 8 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
2Two numbers add up to 7. The bigger one is 3 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
3Two numbers add up to 14. The bigger one is 6 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
4Priya has 4 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Priya make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
5Two numbers add up to 44. The bigger one is 4 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
6Two numbers add up to 18. The bigger one is 4 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
7Rosa 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
8Two numbers add up to 26. The bigger one is 10 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
9I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 5 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 11. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
10Two numbers add up to 35. The bigger one is 7 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
11Two numbers add up to 32. The bigger one is 6 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
12I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 4 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 6. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24
- 2. 5
- 3. 10
- 4. 8 outfits
- 5. 24
- 6. 11
- 7. 6 outfits
- 8. 18
- 9. 83
- 10. 21
- 11. 19
- 12. 51
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