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