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: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
3In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
8In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
10Maya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
12Theo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $11 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 42
- 2. 9
- 3. 18
- 4. 12
- 5. 10
- 6. 6
- 7. 8
- 8. 30
- 9. 12
- 10. 12 dollars
- 11. 5
- 12. 30 dollars
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