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 left box?
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
5Nora has 2 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Nora make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
7I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 2 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 4. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
10Two numbers add up to 14. The bigger one is 10 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
11Each box hides one digit. 3☐ + ☐7 = 65. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 4
- 2. 9
- 3. 3
- 4. 8
- 5. 4 outfits
- 6. 2
- 7. 31
- 8. 2
- 9. 1
- 10. 12
- 11. 38
- 12. 6
Practice this lesson online with games that adjust to your child: agarwalmath.com/math/2nd-grade/challenge-2