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: ______________
2One 🍎 weighs the same as 3 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
3One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
4One 🍊 weighs the same as 2 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
5How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 8, 9, 2, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
6Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7One 🍌 weighs the same as 2 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
8Kai 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
9Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 4, 2, 8, 5, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
11One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
12One 🍌 weighs the same as 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 2
- 2. 3
- 3. 12
- 4. 4
- 5. 6 numbers
- 6. 22 dollars
- 7. 3
- 8. 22 dollars
- 9. 38 dollars
- 10. 20 numbers
- 11. 15
- 12. 8
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