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 2 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
3Ana spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $6 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
4One 🍊 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
54 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
6Rosa spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $2 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: ______________
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
9How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 1, 3, 5, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the top right box?
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. 16
- 2. 4
- 3. 30 dollars
- 4. 9
- 5. 24 orders
- 6. 12 dollars
- 7. 10
- 8. 2
- 9. 6 numbers
- 10. 15
- 11. 12
- 12. 4
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