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: ______________
2I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 4 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 4. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
3Ben has 4 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. An outfit is 1 shirt and 1 pair of pants. How many different outfits can Ben make?
Answer: ______________ outfits
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
5I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 4 more than my ones digit. My digits add up to 8. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
8Each box hides one digit. 3☐ + ☐2 = 50. What is the first 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 bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 15. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 7
- 2. 40
- 3. 8 outfits
- 4. 7
- 5. 62
- 6. 2
- 7. 8
- 8. 38
- 9. 6
- 10. 8
- 11. 1
- 12. 4
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