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: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
3One 🍊 weighs the same as 2 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
4One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
5One 🍐 weighs the same as 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6One 🍐 weighs the same as 2 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
8One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍊. 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 21. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
11One 🍎 weighs the same as 2 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
12How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 4, 1, 3, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24
- 2. 13
- 3. 12
- 4. 9
- 5. 5
- 6. 8
- 7. 21
- 8. 6
- 9. 8
- 10. 11
- 11. 12
- 12. 12 numbers
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