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? ☐8 × 7 = 686
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 9☐ × 6 = 540
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 5☐ × 5 = 285
Answer: ______________
4One 🍐 weighs the same as 2 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 3 = 117
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 5☐ × 4 = 216
Answer: ______________
73 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 $8 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 2 = 90
Answer: ______________
10One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 7, 4, 9, 5, 8, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 30. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 9
- 2. 0
- 3. 7
- 4. 3
- 5. 9
- 6. 4
- 7. 6 orders
- 8. 20 dollars
- 9. 4
- 10. 6
- 11. 20 numbers
- 12. 12
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