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 = 170
Answer: ______________
2One 🍊 weighs the same as 2 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 3 = 108
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 9☐ × 3 = 297
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 9 = 162
Answer: ______________
6Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the top middle box?
Answer: ______________
73 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
8Rosa spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 8 = 776
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 2 = 64
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 5 = 205
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 8☐ × 8 = 704
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 4
- 2. 4
- 3. 3
- 4. 9
- 5. 1
- 6. 10
- 7. 6 orders
- 8. 12 dollars
- 9. 9
- 10. 3
- 11. 4
- 12. 8
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