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? ☐4 × 6 = 444
Answer: ______________
2Leo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3What digit goes in the box? ☐9 × 7 = 623
Answer: ______________
4Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 9 = 144
Answer: ______________
6In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 9 = 243
Answer: ______________
8Omar 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
9What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 8 = 176
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 9 = 108
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 5 = 305
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. 7
- 2. 28 dollars
- 3. 8
- 4. 8
- 5. 1
- 6. 18
- 7. 2
- 8. 18 dollars
- 9. 2
- 10. 2
- 11. 6
- 12. 39
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