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 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
3How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 7, 2, 4, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
43 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
5In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
6Omar 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
74 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
9How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 1, 8, 5, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
11Sam 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
12How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 5, 4, 2, 7, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 20 numbers
- 2. 3
- 3. 6 numbers
- 4. 6 orders
- 5. 30
- 6. 22 dollars
- 7. 24 orders
- 8. 15
- 9. 6 numbers
- 10. 12
- 11. 14 dollars
- 12. 12 numbers
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