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? ☐3 × 5 = 165
Answer: ______________
2Maya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3What digit goes in the box? 4☐ × 9 = 387
Answer: ______________
4One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 3 = 201
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐9 × 4 = 356
Answer: ______________
7Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $11 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 4 = 208
Answer: ______________
10Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the middle right box?
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 7 = 511
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? 9☐ × 9 = 810
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 3
- 2. 14 dollars
- 3. 3
- 4. 8
- 5. 6
- 6. 8
- 7. 32 dollars
- 8. 30
- 9. 5
- 10. 11
- 11. 7
- 12. 0
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