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 15. The bigger one is 3 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
2I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 1 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 9. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
3Each box hides one digit. 6☐ + ☐2 = 75. What is the first number?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
5Two numbers add up to 33. The bigger one is 3 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
9I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 3 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 11. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
10Jamal has 4 shirts and 3 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Jamal make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
11Two numbers add up to 21. The bigger one is 5 more than the smaller one. What is the bigger number?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 9
- 2. 54
- 3. 63
- 4. 8
- 5. 18
- 6. 1
- 7. 3
- 8. 9
- 9. 74
- 10. 12 outfits
- 11. 13
- 12. 2
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