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: ____________
1Each box hides one digit. 2☐ + ☐3 = 44. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
3Ana has 3 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Ana make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
4Each box hides one digit. 3☐ + ☐3 = 44. 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 middle right box?
Answer: ______________
7Each box hides one digit. 6☐ + ☐4 = 79. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
9Each box hides one digit. 6☐ + ☐5 = 100. What is the first number?
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 middle left box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 21
- 2. 4
- 3. 9 outfits
- 4. 31
- 5. 4
- 6. 9
- 7. 65
- 8. 8
- 9. 65
- 10. 6
- 11. 3
- 12. 8
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