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, 8, 7, 3, 4, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
23 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
34 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
5Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 1, 6, 8, 5, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
7Mei spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 8, 2, 3, 6, 5, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
9How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 5, 6, 1, 2, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
11How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 8, 4, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
12Priya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 20 numbers
- 2. 6 orders
- 3. 24 orders
- 4. 9
- 5. 20 dollars
- 6. 12 numbers
- 7. 14 dollars
- 8. 20 numbers
- 9. 12 numbers
- 10. 6
- 11. 6 numbers
- 12. 22 dollars
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