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 3 🍊. 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: ______________
5One 🍎 weighs the same as 3 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
7One 🍓 weighs the same as 2 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
8One 🍎 weighs the same as 2 🍐. 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: ______________
10How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 2, 4, 5, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 6
- 3. 9
- 4. 3
- 5. 4
- 6. 36
- 7. 10
- 8. 8
- 9. 36
- 10. 12 numbers
- 11. 14
- 12. 5
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