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: ____________
1I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 3 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 11. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
4Two numbers add up to 50. The bigger one is 10 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
7Theo has 3 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
8I 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: ______________
9I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 5 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 5. What number am I?
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 left box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 74
- 2. 2
- 3. 7
- 4. 30
- 5. 7
- 6. 2
- 7. 6 outfits
- 8. 41
- 9. 50
- 10. 6
- 11. 2
- 12. 6
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