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? ☐1 × 7 = 287
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 6☐ × 4 = 260
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 2 = 50
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 6 = 450
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 8☐ × 4 = 348
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 2 = 58
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 9 = 459
Answer: ______________
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? 4☐ × 6 = 276
Answer: ______________
10One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
11Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $11 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12What digit goes in the box? 6☐ × 5 = 310
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 4
- 2. 5
- 3. 2
- 4. 7
- 5. 7
- 6. 9
- 7. 5
- 8. 18
- 9. 6
- 10. 24
- 11. 36 dollars
- 12. 2
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