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 6, 5, 9, 7, 2, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
23 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
3Omar spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
44 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, 7, 8, 9, 3, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
6Theo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 5, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
8How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 1, 2, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
9Rosa 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
10Lily spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
11Aiden 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
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 20 numbers
- 2. 6 orders
- 3. 16 dollars
- 4. 24 orders
- 5. 20 numbers
- 6. 12 dollars
- 7. 6 numbers
- 8. 6 numbers
- 9. 8 dollars
- 10. 14 dollars
- 11. 26 dollars
- 12. 14
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