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: ____________
1Kai spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
2Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
33 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
4How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 5, 6, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
5How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 1, 3, 8, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
6How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 9, 7, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
7How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 3, 9, 1, 8, 7, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
8Jamal spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $11 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
10Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
11How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 3, 4, 5, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
12Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $6 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 12 dollars
- 2. 20 dollars
- 3. 6 orders
- 4. 6 numbers
- 5. 12 numbers
- 6. 6 numbers
- 7. 20 numbers
- 8. 32 dollars
- 9. 15
- 10. 18 dollars
- 11. 6 numbers
- 12. 26 dollars
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