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: ______________
3One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
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 8, 3, 1, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
6One 🍎 weighs the same as 2 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
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: ______________
9In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
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 6, 1, 8, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 3
- 2. 8
- 3. 3
- 4. 12
- 5. 6 numbers
- 6. 2
- 7. 2
- 8. 4
- 9. 42
- 10. 3
- 11. 24
- 12. 12 numbers
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