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: ____________
1Rosa spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
2Lily spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 7, 2, 6, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
4What digit goes in the box? 5☐ × 5 = 255
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 4 = 312
Answer: ______________
64 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
7What digit goes in the box? 6☐ × 2 = 132
Answer: ______________
8In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 8 = 208
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 9☐ × 3 = 279
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 9 = 594
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 9 = 297
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 20 dollars
- 2. 18 dollars
- 3. 6 numbers
- 4. 1
- 5. 7
- 6. 24 orders
- 7. 6
- 8. 21
- 9. 6
- 10. 3
- 11. 6
- 12. 3
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