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 $1 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the top middle 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 33. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
9Priya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the top 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 36. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________

Answer key: Challenge puzzles

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