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 7, 5, 3, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
2How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 9, 1, 6, 3, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
33 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
4Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $6 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
64 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
8How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 5, 2, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
9Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 on a snack. Now there is $11 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10Mei 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
11Ana 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
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 6 numbers
- 2. 12 numbers
- 3. 6 orders
- 4. 26 dollars
- 5. 24 dollars
- 6. 24 orders
- 7. 15
- 8. 6 numbers
- 9. 24 dollars
- 10. 26 dollars
- 11. 30 dollars
- 12. 7
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