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: ____________
1Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the top left box?
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: ______________
4One 🍓 weighs the same as 2 🍐. 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 2 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7One 🍊 weighs the same as 2 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
8In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
9One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 7, 1, 5, 8, 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: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 3
- 3. 5
- 4. 6
- 5. 24
- 6. 4
- 7. 3
- 8. 18
- 9. 7
- 10. 12 numbers
- 11. 12
- 12. 8
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