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: ____________
1Each box hides one digit. 5☐ + ☐6 = 83. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
2Each box hides one digit. 6☐ + ☐7 = 100. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
3Each box hides one digit. 3☐ + ☐9 = 59. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
4Each box hides one digit. 6☐ + ☐7 = 97. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
5Each box hides one digit. 4☐ + ☐9 = 61. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
6I 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: ______________
7Each box hides one digit. 1☐ + ☐6 = 35. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
8Each box hides one digit. 4☐ + ☐9 = 83. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
9Ben has 4 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Ben make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
10Each box hides one digit. 5☐ + ☐7 = 80. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
11Two numbers add up to 29. The bigger one is 9 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
12Each box hides one digit. 1☐ + ☐2 = 34. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 57
- 2. 63
- 3. 30
- 4. 60
- 5. 42
- 6. 97
- 7. 19
- 8. 44
- 9. 12 outfits
- 10. 53
- 11. 19
- 12. 12
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