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: ____________
1In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
33 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 $8 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
54 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
6Maya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
8Sam spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9Ana spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $2 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, 4, 3, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
11Theo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 4, 9, 8, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 27
- 2. 10
- 3. 6 orders
- 4. 20 dollars
- 5. 24 orders
- 6. 8 dollars
- 7. 6
- 8. 8 dollars
- 9. 18 dollars
- 10. 6 numbers
- 11. 38 dollars
- 12. 6 numbers
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