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: ______________
2One 🍎 weighs the same as 2 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
3How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 2, 4, 3, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
4How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 4, 8, 2, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
5One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6One 🍓 weighs the same as 3 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7Omar spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8One 🍎 weighs the same as 2 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
10One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 9, 5, 6, 4, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 7
- 2. 16
- 3. 12 numbers
- 4. 6 numbers
- 5. 3
- 6. 5
- 7. 36 dollars
- 8. 4
- 9. 12
- 10. 6
- 11. 12 numbers
- 12. 12
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