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: ____________
1Theo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
2In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
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 21. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
6In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
7Jamal spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. 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: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 18 dollars
- 2. 36
- 3. 24
- 4. 8
- 5. 14
- 6. 24
- 7. 18 dollars
- 8. 39
- 9. 14
- 10. 17
- 11. 36
- 12. 14
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