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: ____________
1Zoe has 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Zoe make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
2Two numbers add up to 16. The bigger one is 2 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
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 top right box?
Answer: ______________
5Each box hides one digit. 3☐ + ☐0 = 61. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
6Each box hides one digit. 4☐ + ☐2 = 53. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
7Each box hides one digit. 4☐ + ☐5 = 60. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
8Ana has 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Ana make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
11Two numbers add up to 31. The bigger one is 9 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
12I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 1 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 5. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 6 outfits
- 2. 9
- 3. 2
- 4. 8
- 5. 31
- 6. 41
- 7. 45
- 8. 6 outfits
- 9. 9
- 10. 7
- 11. 20
- 12. 32
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