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: ______________
2One 🍓 weighs the same as 3 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
3One 🍓 weighs the same as 2 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
4In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
5One 🍓 weighs the same as 3 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
64 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
7One 🍎 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
8One 🍌 weighs the same as 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
9How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 4, 9, 7, 8, 1, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
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: ______________
12How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 1, 4, 2, 9, 6, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24
- 2. 21
- 3. 7
- 4. 27
- 5. 5
- 6. 24 orders
- 7. 8
- 8. 3
- 9. 20 numbers
- 10. 8
- 11. 39
- 12. 20 numbers
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