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 5, 1, 2, 7, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
24 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
3Mei spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
43 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
5How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 4, 2, 6, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
7Mei spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 7, 5, 1, 3, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
10Mei spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $5 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, 8, 9, 4, 1, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
12Omar spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 20 numbers
- 2. 24 orders
- 3. 26 dollars
- 4. 6 orders
- 5. 6 numbers
- 6. 7
- 7. 40 dollars
- 8. 12 numbers
- 9. 16
- 10. 18 dollars
- 11. 20 numbers
- 12. 36 dollars
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