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