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: ____________
1Leo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $8 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
2Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
7Maya 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
8Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 on a snack. Now there is $8 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $8 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 32 dollars
- 2. 12 dollars
- 3. 30
- 4. 11
- 5. 15
- 6. 13
- 7. 24 dollars
- 8. 18 dollars
- 9. 28 dollars
- 10. 6
- 11. 7
- 12. 11
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