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 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 5 = 440
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 5☐ × 8 = 400
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 9 = 144
Answer: ______________
6Priya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7What digit goes in the box? ☐9 × 9 = 171
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 9 = 306
Answer: ______________
93 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
10What digit goes in the box? 6☐ × 5 = 335
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 7 = 399
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 7☐ × 3 = 225
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24
- 2. 5
- 3. 8
- 4. 0
- 5. 1
- 6. 14 dollars
- 7. 1
- 8. 4
- 9. 6 orders
- 10. 7
- 11. 5
- 12. 5
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