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: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? ☐0 × 4 = 320
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 8☐ × 8 = 648
Answer: ______________
4In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 6 = 336
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 3 = 168
Answer: ______________
74 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
8Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $6 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9Jamal spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 8 = 120
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 3 = 165
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 3 = 66
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 14
- 2. 8
- 3. 1
- 4. 36
- 5. 5
- 6. 5
- 7. 24 orders
- 8. 16 dollars
- 9. 28 dollars
- 10. 1
- 11. 5
- 12. 2
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