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 middle right box?
Answer: ______________
2I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 2 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 6. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
3Nora has 2 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Nora make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
6Aiden has 4 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Aiden make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
7Each box hides one digit. 4☐ + ☐1 = 68. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
9Each box hides one digit. 1☐ + ☐6 = 28. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
11I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 3 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 15. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
12I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 5 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 13. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 7
- 2. 42
- 3. 6 outfits
- 4. 8
- 5. 4
- 6. 8 outfits
- 7. 47
- 8. 9
- 9. 12
- 10. 4
- 11. 96
- 12. 94
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