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 3 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
2One 🍌 weighs the same as 2 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
3One 🍎 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
4Omar spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5Ana spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6One 🍊 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7One 🍓 weighs the same as 3 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
8How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 3, 4, 7, 5, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
9One 🍐 weighs the same as 2 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10One 🍓 weighs the same as 2 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11One 🍌 weighs the same as 2 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
12One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24
- 2. 8
- 3. 6
- 4. 32 dollars
- 5. 28 dollars
- 6. 2
- 7. 8
- 8. 20 numbers
- 9. 8
- 10. 16
- 11. 4
- 12. 24
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