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: ____________
13 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
2In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
3How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 5, 2, 3, 8, 4, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
5Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $9 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, 4, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
7Theo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 1, 7, 9, 4, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
9How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 3, 4, 7, 2, 8, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
10How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 5, 2, 6, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
114 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 6 orders
- 2. 30
- 3. 20 numbers
- 4. 4
- 5. 26 dollars
- 6. 6 numbers
- 7. 14 dollars
- 8. 12 numbers
- 9. 20 numbers
- 10. 6 numbers
- 11. 24 orders
- 12. 9
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