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: ______________
3One 🍓 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
5One 🍊 weighs the same as 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 7, 8, 1, 4, 5, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
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: ______________
9One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
12One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 16
- 2. 3
- 3. 2
- 4. 2
- 5. 8
- 6. 20 numbers
- 7. 6
- 8. 6
- 9. 6
- 10. 12
- 11. 10
- 12. 6
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