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. 4☐ + ☐6 = 56. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
2Each box hides one digit. 6☐ + ☐2 = 78. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
3Each box hides one digit. 6☐ + ☐2 = 98. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
4Each box hides one digit. 6☐ + ☐7 = 79. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
5Two numbers add up to 36. The bigger one is 8 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
6Two numbers add up to 22. The bigger one is 4 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
7Each box hides one digit. 6☐ + ☐9 = 91. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
8Each box hides one digit. 1☐ + ☐0 = 25. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
9I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 3 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 3. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
10Omar 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
11Each box hides one digit. 2☐ + ☐0 = 55. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
12I 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: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 40
- 2. 66
- 3. 66
- 4. 62
- 5. 22
- 6. 13
- 7. 62
- 8. 15
- 9. 30
- 10. 6 outfits
- 11. 25
- 12. 83
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