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 4, 9, 2, 3, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
2How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 7, 5, 4, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
3How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 5, 1, 6, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
4How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 2, 6, 3, 4, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
54 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
6In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
83 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
9Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $8 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, 4, 1, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
11Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 12 numbers
- 2. 6 numbers
- 3. 6 numbers
- 4. 20 numbers
- 5. 24 orders
- 6. 18
- 7. 13
- 8. 6 orders
- 9. 32 dollars
- 10. 6 numbers
- 11. 20 dollars
- 12. 6
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