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: ______________
5How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 3, 9, 7, 2, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
6Kai spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
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 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: ______________
12One 🍓 weighs the same as 3 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 4
- 2. 7
- 3. 12
- 4. 8
- 5. 12 numbers
- 6. 8 dollars
- 7. 2
- 8. 2
- 9. 10
- 10. 8
- 11. 16
- 12. 12
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