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
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
3How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 2, 5, 4, 7, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
54 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
6Omar 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
7Maya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $8 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8Sam spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $11 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
11How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 4, 3, 9, 2, 7, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
12Sam spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 6 orders
- 2. 18
- 3. 12 numbers
- 4. 16
- 5. 24 orders
- 6. 16 dollars
- 7. 26 dollars
- 8. 32 dollars
- 9. 32 dollars
- 10. 6
- 11. 20 numbers
- 12. 14 dollars
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