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: ______________
2How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 9, 5, 4, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
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 8, 2, 1, 5, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
73 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
8Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9One 🍐 weighs the same as 2 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10Kai spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
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. 3
- 2. 6 numbers
- 3. 7
- 4. 11
- 5. 10
- 6. 12 numbers
- 7. 6 orders
- 8. 22 dollars
- 9. 10
- 10. 22 dollars
- 11. 2
- 12. 2
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