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: ____________
1One 🍌 weighs the same as 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
2How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 3, 4, 1, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
3Maya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $11 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
43 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
5One 🍓 weighs the same as 2 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 2, 1, 9, 4, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
7Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8One 🍊 weighs the same as 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
9One 🍊 weighs the same as 3 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11Ben 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
12One 🍌 weighs the same as 2 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 16
- 2. 6 numbers
- 3. 30 dollars
- 4. 6 orders
- 5. 4
- 6. 12 numbers
- 7. 26 dollars
- 8. 7
- 9. 15
- 10. 2
- 11. 32 dollars
- 12. 7
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