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 42. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
4In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
5In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
6In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
8Ana spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the top right 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. 12
- 2. 8
- 3. 10
- 4. 39
- 5. 30
- 6. 42
- 7. 10
- 8. 34 dollars
- 9. 12
- 10. 14
- 11. 4
- 12. 27
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