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 middle box?
Answer: ______________
2Two numbers add up to 18. The bigger one is 4 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
3Priya has 3 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Priya make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
4Each box hides one digit. 4☐ + ☐4 = 62. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
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 middle right box?
Answer: ______________
8Each box hides one digit. 5☐ + ☐1 = 80. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
10I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 5 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 13. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
12Each box hides one digit. 4☐ + ☐6 = 84. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 9
- 2. 11
- 3. 9 outfits
- 4. 48
- 5. 2
- 6. 6
- 7. 9
- 8. 59
- 9. 9
- 10. 94
- 11. 2
- 12. 48
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