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: ____________
1Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
3Kai spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 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 39. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
5In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
6Ana spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $6 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
9Ana spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 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 36. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 11
- 2. 15
- 3. 20 dollars
- 4. 10
- 5. 30
- 6. 28 dollars
- 7. 24 dollars
- 8. 7
- 9. 24 dollars
- 10. 10
- 11. 2
- 12. 4
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