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 2 🍌. 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: ______________
6One 🍐 weighs the same as 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7Priya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 8, 4, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
9One 🍌 weighs the same as 2 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10One 🍓 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
12One 🍎 weighs the same as 2 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 15
- 2. 16
- 3. 4
- 4. 4
- 5. 4
- 6. 7
- 7. 42 dollars
- 8. 6 numbers
- 9. 2
- 10. 4
- 11. 15
- 12. 8
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