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: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
5Omar spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $11 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
7Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
9Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
11In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 21
- 2. 6
- 3. 10
- 4. 7
- 5. 40 dollars
- 6. 7
- 7. 32 dollars
- 8. 39
- 9. 16 dollars
- 10. 13
- 11. 33
- 12. 15
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