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: ____________
1How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 1, 3, 6, 9, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
2Mei spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3What digit goes in the box? ☐4 × 7 = 588
Answer: ______________
4Lily spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 8 = 440
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐9 × 7 = 413
Answer: ______________
7Ben spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $6 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the bottom right box?
Answer: ______________
9One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 6 = 252
Answer: ______________
11One 🍎 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 7 = 651
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 12 numbers
- 2. 14 dollars
- 3. 8
- 4. 32 dollars
- 5. 5
- 6. 5
- 7. 30 dollars
- 8. 10
- 9. 21
- 10. 4
- 11. 24
- 12. 9
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