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: ______________
2Jamal spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
4In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
5Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6Omar spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
8Maya 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
9Kai spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
11Sam spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12Sam 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
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 36
- 2. 36 dollars
- 3. 13
- 4. 27
- 5. 16 dollars
- 6. 34 dollars
- 7. 10
- 8. 18 dollars
- 9. 38 dollars
- 10. 26 dollars
- 11. 14 dollars
- 12. 28 dollars
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