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: ____________
1How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 9, 1, 2, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
23 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
34 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
4In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
5Rosa 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
6How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 8, 6, 1, 4, 5, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
9Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
11How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 1, 8, 3, 7, 5, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
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. 6 numbers
- 2. 6 orders
- 3. 24 orders
- 4. 21
- 5. 34 dollars
- 6. 20 numbers
- 7. 11
- 8. 10
- 9. 28 dollars
- 10. 4
- 11. 20 numbers
- 12. 18
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