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: ____________
1Two numbers add up to 16. The bigger one is 4 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
2Each box hides one digit. 1☐ + ☐5 = 50. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
4Two numbers add up to 11. The bigger one is 1 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
6Kai has 3 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Kai make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
8Two numbers add up to 20. The bigger one is 6 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom left box?
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 middle left box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 10
- 2. 15
- 3. 2
- 4. 6
- 5. 6
- 6. 9 outfits
- 7. 7
- 8. 13
- 9. 8
- 10. 8
- 11. 3
- 12. 7
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