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 33. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
2Ana spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
4Maya 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
5Priya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
8Sam 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
9Ana spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $12 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 middle box?
Answer: ______________
11In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
12Lily spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 7
- 2. 22 dollars
- 3. 11
- 4. 26 dollars
- 5. 24 dollars
- 6. 18
- 7. 11
- 8. 36 dollars
- 9. 34 dollars
- 10. 10
- 11. 42
- 12. 24 dollars
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