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: ______________
23 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
3How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 5, 7, 1, 9, 2, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
4One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
5One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6One 🍊 weighs the same as 3 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
74 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
8One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
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: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
12One 🍎 weighs the same as 2 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 6 orders
- 3. 20 numbers
- 4. 9
- 5. 3
- 6. 3
- 7. 24 orders
- 8. 18
- 9. 10
- 10. 2
- 11. 9
- 12. 14
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