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: ____________
1What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 5 = 185
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 7☐ × 3 = 213
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 5☐ × 2 = 104
Answer: ______________
5Priya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6What digit goes in the box? 4☐ × 8 = 392
Answer: ______________
7Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8One 🍓 weighs the same as 2 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? ☐9 × 7 = 343
Answer: ______________
104 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
11What digit goes in the box? ☐4 × 7 = 238
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐4 × 2 = 108
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 7
- 2. 1
- 3. 11
- 4. 2
- 5. 12 dollars
- 6. 9
- 7. 12 dollars
- 8. 2
- 9. 4
- 10. 24 orders
- 11. 3
- 12. 5
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