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: ____________
14 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
23 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
3Theo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
4Ana spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $8 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
6How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 8, 3, 1, 9, 6, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
7How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 8, 2, 3, 1, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
8Leo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
10Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
11How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 7, 2, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
12How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 3, 5, 2, 7, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24 orders
- 2. 6 orders
- 3. 16 dollars
- 4. 34 dollars
- 5. 14
- 6. 20 numbers
- 7. 12 numbers
- 8. 36 dollars
- 9. 3
- 10. 36 dollars
- 11. 6 numbers
- 12. 20 numbers
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