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 middle box?
Answer: ______________
2Two numbers add up to 15. The bigger one is 7 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
4Two numbers add up to 47. The bigger one is 7 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
6Each box hides one digit. 1☐ + ☐8 = 34. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
8I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 1 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 3. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
12Two numbers add up to 15. The bigger one is 3 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 3
- 2. 11
- 3. 2
- 4. 27
- 5. 9
- 6. 16
- 7. 9
- 8. 21
- 9. 2
- 10. 9
- 11. 2
- 12. 9
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