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, 8, 1, 2, 7, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
2Rosa 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
3In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
4How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 7, 4, 3, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
5Jamal spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $5 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
7How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 3, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
83 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
9Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 3, 6, 2, 8, 4, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
11Rosa spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 20 numbers
- 2. 26 dollars
- 3. 33
- 4. 12 numbers
- 5. 24 dollars
- 6. 24 orders
- 7. 6 numbers
- 8. 6 orders
- 9. 22 dollars
- 10. 20 numbers
- 11. 18 dollars
- 12. 11
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