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 3 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
3In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
4In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 18. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
6One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7Priya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $6 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
9One 🍊 weighs the same as 3 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10One 🍓 weighs the same as 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
12Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 4
- 2. 9
- 3. 21
- 4. 33
- 5. 9
- 6. 15
- 7. 32 dollars
- 8. 42
- 9. 7
- 10. 10
- 11. 10
- 12. 18 dollars
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