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: ____________
1Sam spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $8 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
3In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
4In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
5In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
8In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
10Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
11Jamal spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 22 dollars
- 2. 3
- 3. 36
- 4. 21
- 5. 21
- 6. 11
- 7. 10
- 8. 30
- 9. 11
- 10. 10 dollars
- 11. 32 dollars
- 12. 12
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