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
2In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
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 8, 1, 5, 2, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
6Ana spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7Theo 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
8Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 3, 5, 4, 6, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
10In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
11Leo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $6 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 6 orders
- 2. 36
- 3. 24
- 4. 24 orders
- 5. 12 numbers
- 6. 22 dollars
- 7. 40 dollars
- 8. 22 dollars
- 9. 12 numbers
- 10. 36
- 11. 20 dollars
- 12. 21
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