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: ____________
1In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
2Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $6 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
4In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
5Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
7Sam spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $11 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 18
- 2. 20 dollars
- 3. 11
- 4. 42
- 5. 18 dollars
- 6. 33
- 7. 30 dollars
- 8. 22 dollars
- 9. 7
- 10. 17
- 11. 10
- 12. 8
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