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☐ × 3 = 135
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 6☐ × 2 = 122
Answer: ______________
3How many different 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 3, 2, 6, using a digit only once in a number?
Answer: ______________ numbers
4What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 5 = 225
Answer: ______________
5One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 3 = 78
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 5 = 160
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 4 = 188
Answer: ______________
9Theo spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $2 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10What digit goes in the box? 2☐ × 8 = 168
Answer: ______________
11Lily spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $7 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12What digit goes in the box? ☐0 × 6 = 240
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 1
- 3. 6 numbers
- 4. 4
- 5. 18
- 6. 2
- 7. 2
- 8. 4
- 9. 22 dollars
- 10. 1
- 11. 32 dollars
- 12. 4
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