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: ____________
1Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
24 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
43 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
6Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 1, 9, 2, 7, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
8How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 8, 3, 4, 1, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
10Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
11How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 3, 9, 5, 1, 8, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
12Omar spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $6 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 8
- 2. 24 orders
- 3. 7
- 4. 6 orders
- 5. 8
- 6. 14 dollars
- 7. 20 numbers
- 8. 12 numbers
- 9. 10
- 10. 30 dollars
- 11. 20 numbers
- 12. 26 dollars
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