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: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
3Priya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
5Leo 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
6Sam 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
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
8In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
9In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
10In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
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 18. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 30
- 2. 4
- 3. 28 dollars
- 4. 13
- 5. 30 dollars
- 6. 24 dollars
- 7. 14
- 8. 21
- 9. 18
- 10. 30
- 11. 24
- 12. 8
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