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 21. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
2In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
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 30. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
7In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the bottom right box?
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. 6
- 2. 24
- 3. 5
- 4. 21
- 5. 7
- 6. 8
- 7. 33
- 8. 6
- 9. 9
- 10. 18
- 11. 33
- 12. 8
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