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? 2☐ × 2 = 40
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 7☐ × 8 = 568
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 7☐ × 7 = 511
Answer: ______________
4One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
5Leo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 7 = 189
Answer: ______________
7One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 8 = 328
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 8 = 568
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 8 = 680
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 5 = 160
Answer: ______________
12Zoe spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $7 on a snack. Now there is $6 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 0
- 2. 1
- 3. 3
- 4. 6
- 5. 8 dollars
- 6. 7
- 7. 3
- 8. 4
- 9. 7
- 10. 8
- 11. 2
- 12. 26 dollars
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