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: ____________
1Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
24 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 2, 5, 8, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
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 39. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
6Jamal spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 3, 7, 4, 6, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
8How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 3, 9, 7, 8, 4, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
9Maya 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
10Theo 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
11How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 1, 8, 6, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
12Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 26 dollars
- 2. 24 orders
- 3. 6 numbers
- 4. 6 orders
- 5. 16
- 6. 16 dollars
- 7. 20 numbers
- 8. 20 numbers
- 9. 18 dollars
- 10. 38 dollars
- 11. 6 numbers
- 12. 26 dollars
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