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 1 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 15. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
2Two numbers add up to 14. The bigger one is 4 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
5I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 3 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 3. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
6Two numbers add up to 35. The bigger one is 1 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
7Aiden has 4 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Aiden make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
10I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 4 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 14. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 87
- 2. 9
- 3. 2
- 4. 4
- 5. 30
- 6. 18
- 7. 12 outfits
- 8. 4
- 9. 9
- 10. 95
- 11. 1
- 12. 3
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