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 27. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
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 24. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
5Omar spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $2 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: ______________
7In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
8Priya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
11Jamal spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12Rosa spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $8 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 4
- 3. 33
- 4. 6
- 5. 22 dollars
- 6. 39
- 7. 27
- 8. 30 dollars
- 9. 12
- 10. 16
- 11. 30 dollars
- 12. 20 dollars
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