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: ____________
1In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
2In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
3Lily spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $7 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 21. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
7Rosa spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $6 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
9Leo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $11 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the middle left box?
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. 24
- 2. 36
- 3. 32 dollars
- 4. 39
- 5. 10
- 6. 5
- 7. 22 dollars
- 8. 33
- 9. 32 dollars
- 10. 5
- 11. 16
- 12. 42
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