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: ____________
1In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
2How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 1, 4, 9, 3, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
3One 🍐 weighs the same as 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
4Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
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: ______________
7In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
8One 🍐 weighs the same as 2 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
9One 🍓 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10One 🍌 weighs the same as 2 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
12How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 9, 1, 6, 3, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 21
- 2. 20 numbers
- 3. 4
- 4. 14 dollars
- 5. 24
- 6. 12
- 7. 21
- 8. 8
- 9. 2
- 10. 6
- 11. 6
- 12. 12 numbers
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