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: ______________
3One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the bottom middle box?
Answer: ______________
5Rosa spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7One 🍎 weighs the same as 2 🍐. 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 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10One 🍎 weighs the same as 2 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
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 3, 1, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 4
- 2. 18
- 3. 2
- 4. 8
- 5. 32 dollars
- 6. 24
- 7. 3
- 8. 7
- 9. 5
- 10. 5
- 11. 8
- 12. 6 numbers
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