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: ____________
1Every row, column, and diagonal makes 21. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 5 = 160
Answer: ______________
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 24. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 7 = 168
Answer: ______________
6In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
7Every row, column, and diagonal makes 42. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 6 = 510
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 2 = 76
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 8 = 576
Answer: ______________
11Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 on a snack. Now there is $8 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 6
- 2. 2
- 3. 13
- 4. 11
- 5. 4
- 6. 42
- 7. 16
- 8. 8
- 9. 8
- 10. 7
- 11. 18 dollars
- 12. 18
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