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 middle left box?
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
3In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
4In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
5Ana spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $9 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 $1 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
8Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 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: ______________
10In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 8
- 3. 24
- 4. 30
- 5. 32 dollars
- 6. 16 dollars
- 7. 21
- 8. 22 dollars
- 9. 18
- 10. 18
- 11. 11
- 12. 10
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