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: ______________
33 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
4One 🍊 weighs the same as 3 🍎. 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: ______________
7How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 8, 2, 7, 3, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
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 3 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
12One 🍐 weighs the same as 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 14
- 2. 6
- 3. 6 orders
- 4. 3
- 5. 5
- 6. 3
- 7. 12 numbers
- 8. 5
- 9. 24
- 10. 9
- 11. 27
- 12. 10
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