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: ______________
2Mei spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
6Mei spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
9Leo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $5 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: ______________
11Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 21
- 2. 36 dollars
- 3. 12
- 4. 7
- 5. 14
- 6. 26 dollars
- 7. 15
- 8. 9
- 9. 14 dollars
- 10. 36
- 11. 18 dollars
- 12. 10
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