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: ____________
1Omar spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
2Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $8 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
4Maya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
7Kai spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $3 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: ______________
9In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 30 dollars
- 2. 20 dollars
- 3. 18
- 4. 26 dollars
- 5. 12
- 6. 12
- 7. 22 dollars
- 8. 30
- 9. 36
- 10. 8
- 11. 10
- 12. 11
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