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: ______________
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: ______________
7How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 3, 5, 1, 4, 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: ______________
9Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
104 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
11Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12One 🍓 weighs the same as 3 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 3
- 2. 8
- 3. 3
- 4. 7
- 5. 21
- 6. 4
- 7. 12 numbers
- 8. 4
- 9. 11
- 10. 24 orders
- 11. 32 dollars
- 12. 12
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