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, 8, 6, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
4Lily spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $11 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5Leo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 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 7, 2, 3, 4, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
7How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 4, 5, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
8In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
9Jamal spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
12How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 1, 6, 3, 2, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 6 orders
- 2. 24
- 3. 6 numbers
- 4. 26 dollars
- 5. 18 dollars
- 6. 12 numbers
- 7. 6 numbers
- 8. 42
- 9. 18 dollars
- 10. 27
- 11. 13
- 12. 12 numbers
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