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: ____________
1Two numbers add up to 17. The bigger one is 7 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
2Sam has 3 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Sam make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
5Two numbers add up to 48. The bigger one is 10 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
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 left box?
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
10Two numbers add up to 11. The bigger one is 7 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
11Each box hides one digit. 4☐ + ☐0 = 57. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
12Nora has 2 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. 12
- 2. 9 outfits
- 3. 3
- 4. 7
- 5. 29
- 6. 4
- 7. 6
- 8. 7
- 9. 3
- 10. 9
- 11. 47
- 12. 4 outfits
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