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: ____________
13 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
2Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $8 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
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 3, 6, 7, 1, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
6Maya 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
7Kai 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
8How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 1, 5, 4, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
9Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
11Theo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $8 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 2, 4, 6, 9, 3, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 6 orders
- 2. 20 dollars
- 3. 27
- 4. 24 orders
- 5. 12 numbers
- 6. 14 dollars
- 7. 16 dollars
- 8. 6 numbers
- 9. 28 dollars
- 10. 12
- 11. 26 dollars
- 12. 20 numbers
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