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 30. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
2Ana 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
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
4Mei spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $11 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
9Theo 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
10Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 on a snack. Now there is $6 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
11In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
12Omar spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 7
- 2. 30 dollars
- 3. 10
- 4. 36 dollars
- 5. 8
- 6. 4
- 7. 9
- 8. 5
- 9. 32 dollars
- 10. 14 dollars
- 11. 33
- 12. 28 dollars
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