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 $9 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
4In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
6Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
8Rosa spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9Lily spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
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. 22 dollars
- 2. 11
- 3. 8
- 4. 21
- 5. 10
- 6. 34 dollars
- 7. 14
- 8. 40 dollars
- 9. 8 dollars
- 10. 8
- 11. 8
- 12. 21
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