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 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: ______________
6One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 6, 3, 5, 8, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
8One 🍐 weighs the same as 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
93 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
10One 🍐 weighs the same as 2 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the bottom left box?
Answer: ______________
12One 🍓 weighs the same as 2 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 14
- 2. 5
- 3. 4
- 4. 24
- 5. 21
- 6. 4
- 7. 12 numbers
- 8. 6
- 9. 6 orders
- 10. 4
- 11. 7
- 12. 6
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