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 27. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
2In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
3Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
4In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
8Priya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
11In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
12In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 13
- 2. 27
- 3. 26 dollars
- 4. 33
- 5. 2
- 6. 6
- 7. 11
- 8. 28 dollars
- 9. 36
- 10. 16
- 11. 18
- 12. 42
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