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