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 18. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
4Lily spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
8In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
9Jamal spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
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 18. What number goes in the bottom middle 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. 8
- 2. 14
- 3. 13
- 4. 24 dollars
- 5. 18 dollars
- 6. 7
- 7. 11
- 8. 36
- 9. 30 dollars
- 10. 24
- 11. 10
- 12. 30
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