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 30. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
3Jamal 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
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
7Mei 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
8Theo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9Theo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $6 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
11In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
12Ana spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 14
- 2. 11
- 3. 20 dollars
- 4. 6
- 5. 6
- 6. 12
- 7. 24 dollars
- 8. 24 dollars
- 9. 30 dollars
- 10. 3
- 11. 27
- 12. 20 dollars
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