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☐ + ☐7 = 68. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
2I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 2 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 2. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
8Two numbers add up to 29. The bigger one is 5 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
12Nora has 4 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
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 51
- 2. 20
- 3. 6
- 4. 1
- 5. 6
- 6. 8
- 7. 9
- 8. 17
- 9. 9
- 10. 9
- 11. 4
- 12. 8 outfits
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