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? 5☐ × 3 = 171
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 7 = 686
Answer: ______________
3In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? 4☐ × 5 = 205
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 9☐ × 7 = 637
Answer: ______________
6Lily spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $1 on a snack. Now there is $8 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7One 🍊 weighs the same as 3 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍊 weigh?
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? 9☐ × 4 = 384
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 4☐ × 2 = 80
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? 4☐ × 2 = 92
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 7 = 217
Answer: ______________
12Theo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $3 on a snack. Now there is $2 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 7
- 2. 9
- 3. 33
- 4. 1
- 5. 1
- 6. 18 dollars
- 7. 9
- 8. 6
- 9. 0
- 10. 6
- 11. 3
- 12. 10 dollars
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