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 24. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
2Maya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3Jamal spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
4Kai spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
12Lily spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 11
- 2. 20 dollars
- 3. 34 dollars
- 4. 14 dollars
- 5. 15
- 6. 16
- 7. 11
- 8. 4
- 9. 11
- 10. 9
- 11. 8
- 12. 22 dollars
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