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 42. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
2Maya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
5In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
8Sam 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
9Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 10
- 2. 26 dollars
- 3. 42
- 4. 8
- 5. 36
- 6. 10
- 7. 16
- 8. 12 dollars
- 9. 18 dollars
- 10. 39
- 11. 10
- 12. 9
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