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: ____________
1Sam has 4 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Sam make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
3Each box hides one digit. 5☐ + ☐3 = 81. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
4Leo has 4 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Leo make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left 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 9. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
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 bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
12I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 3 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 5. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 8 outfits
- 2. 8
- 3. 58
- 4. 8 outfits
- 5. 8
- 6. 4
- 7. 2
- 8. 54
- 9. 7
- 10. 4
- 11. 8
- 12. 41
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