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: ____________
1Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
3I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 1 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 7. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left 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 top right box?
Answer: ______________
8I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 1 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 17. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
10Two numbers add up to 27. The bigger one is 1 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 2
- 2. 9
- 3. 43
- 4. 3
- 5. 3
- 6. 6
- 7. 8
- 8. 98
- 9. 6
- 10. 14
- 11. 8
- 12. 1
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