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: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
4Two numbers add up to 37. The bigger one is 5 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
5I 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: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
9I 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: ______________
10Each box hides one digit. 5☐ + ☐6 = 82. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
12Kai has 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Kai make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 1
- 2. 8
- 3. 8
- 4. 21
- 5. 21
- 6. 9
- 7. 6
- 8. 2
- 9. 30
- 10. 56
- 11. 6
- 12. 6 outfits
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