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: ____________
1Mei spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $4 on a snack. Now there is $10 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
2What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 8 = 648
Answer: ______________
3What digit goes in the box? 9☐ × 8 = 752
Answer: ______________
4In a magic square, every row, column, and diagonal makes the same total. What total does each line make?
Answer: ______________
5What digit goes in the box? 5☐ × 9 = 522
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 6 = 96
Answer: ______________
7What digit goes in the box? 8☐ × 8 = 688
Answer: ______________
8What digit goes in the box? ☐4 × 4 = 136
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 9 = 495
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐0 × 8 = 480
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? 1☐ × 7 = 133
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 5 = 235
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 28 dollars
- 2. 8
- 3. 4
- 4. 24
- 5. 8
- 6. 6
- 7. 6
- 8. 3
- 9. 5
- 10. 6
- 11. 9
- 12. 4
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