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: ______________
2In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
3Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
4Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
9In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
10In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
11Mei spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 27
- 2. 18
- 3. 12 dollars
- 4. 20 dollars
- 5. 10
- 6. 11
- 7. 5
- 8. 11
- 9. 42
- 10. 27
- 11. 24 dollars
- 12. 18
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