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: ____________
1Jamal has 3 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Jamal make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
2Jamal has 4 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Jamal make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
3Theo has 2 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Theo make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
5I 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: ______________
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: ______________
8Each box hides one digit. 6☐ + ☐9 = 104. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
9Lily has 3 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Lily make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 9 outfits
- 2. 12 outfits
- 3. 4 outfits
- 4. 4
- 5. 32
- 6. 8
- 7. 9
- 8. 65
- 9. 9 outfits
- 10. 4
- 11. 7
- 12. 2
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