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: ____________
1Omar spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
2In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
34 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
4Lily spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $11 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
53 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
6Lily spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
8How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 7, 5, 6, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
10How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 1, 8, 5, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
11How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 8, 5, 6, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24 dollars
- 2. 33
- 3. 24 orders
- 4. 30 dollars
- 5. 6 orders
- 6. 26 dollars
- 7. 8
- 8. 6 numbers
- 9. 10
- 10. 6 numbers
- 11. 6 numbers
- 12. 8
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