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: ____________
1Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
2Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3Leo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $6 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 right box?
Answer: ______________
5In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
7Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the middle 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: ______________
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. 16 dollars
- 2. 36 dollars
- 3. 18 dollars
- 4. 10
- 5. 24
- 6. 11
- 7. 16 dollars
- 8. 13
- 9. 13
- 10. 18
- 11. 36
- 12. 24
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