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 = 384
Answer: ______________
2Every row, column, and diagonal makes 27. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
33 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
4Aiden spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 36. What number goes in the top left box?
Answer: ______________
64 friends stand in a line for a photo. How many different orders can they stand in?
Answer: ______________ orders
7What digit goes in the box? 6☐ × 3 = 189
Answer: ______________
8One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
9One 🍎 weighs the same as 2 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 6 = 162
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 8☐ × 5 = 430
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 9 = 297
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 6
- 2. 12
- 3. 6 orders
- 4. 16 dollars
- 5. 11
- 6. 24 orders
- 7. 3
- 8. 8
- 9. 14
- 10. 7
- 11. 6
- 12. 3
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