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: ____________
1Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $5 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
2What digit goes in the box? 4☐ × 4 = 192
Answer: ______________
3In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 5 = 140
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 8☐ × 3 = 261
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 8 = 496
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 8 = 528
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 6☐ × 2 = 126
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 2 = 64
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 7☐ × 5 = 375
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 7 = 322
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐4 × 3 = 72
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 16 dollars
- 2. 8
- 3. 39
- 4. 2
- 5. 7
- 6. 6
- 7. 6
- 8. 3
- 9. 3
- 10. 5
- 11. 4
- 12. 2
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