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: ____________
14 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
33 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
4Theo 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
5How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 8, 2, 5, 1, 7, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
6How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 5, 8, 2, 1, 6, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
7Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 9, 8, 5, 1, 4, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
9Priya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
11How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 4, 6, 7, 5, 2, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
12How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 9, 2, 7, 6, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24 orders
- 2. 16
- 3. 6 orders
- 4. 16 dollars
- 5. 20 numbers
- 6. 20 numbers
- 7. 32 dollars
- 8. 20 numbers
- 9. 22 dollars
- 10. 39
- 11. 20 numbers
- 12. 12 numbers
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