πagarwalmath · 5th 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 18. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
2In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
4Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
8Lily spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
12Mei spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $6 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 9
- 2. 24
- 3. 10
- 4. 22 dollars
- 5. 24 dollars
- 6. 13
- 7. 10
- 8. 8 dollars
- 9. 16
- 10. 12
- 11. 12
- 12. 24 dollars
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