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 top left box?
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
6I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 7 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 9. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
7Two numbers add up to 23. The bigger one is 1 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
8Each box hides one digit. 5☐ + ☐2 = 75. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 8
- 2. 2
- 3. 7
- 4. 9
- 5. 1
- 6. 81
- 7. 12
- 8. 53
- 9. 1
- 10. 2
- 11. 6
- 12. 6
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