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: ____________
1Maya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $8 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: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
5Rosa spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6Maya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
8In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
9Theo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
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 21. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24 dollars
- 2. 21
- 3. 5
- 4. 9
- 5. 12 dollars
- 6. 16 dollars
- 7. 14
- 8. 42
- 9. 28 dollars
- 10. 9
- 11. 39
- 12. 3
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