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: ____________
1Aiden 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
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
5In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the top middle 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 36. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 32 dollars
- 2. 9
- 3. 9
- 4. 9
- 5. 30
- 6. 8
- 7. 12
- 8. 42
- 9. 13
- 10. 11
- 11. 11
- 12. 10
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