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? ☐6 × 8 = 368
Answer: ______________
2One 🍊 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
34 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
4What digit goes in the box? ☐9 × 7 = 413
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 5☐ × 8 = 400
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 8 = 280
Answer: ______________
7One 🍊 weighs the same as 2 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? ☐9 × 3 = 57
Answer: ______________
9Mei spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $3 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 5 = 75
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 8 = 144
Answer: ______________
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. 4
- 2. 6
- 3. 24 orders
- 4. 5
- 5. 0
- 6. 5
- 7. 6
- 8. 1
- 9. 16 dollars
- 10. 1
- 11. 1
- 12. 42
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