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