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 right box?
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 bottom right box?
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 bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
6Each box hides one digit. 4☐ + ☐4 = 73. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
8Each box hides one digit. 1☐ + ☐6 = 30. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
11Two numbers add up to 43. The bigger one is 9 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 4
- 2. 4
- 3. 6
- 4. 1
- 5. 2
- 6. 49
- 7. 1
- 8. 14
- 9. 2
- 10. 1
- 11. 26
- 12. 4
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