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? ☐8 × 8 = 144
Answer: ______________
2Kai spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $8 on a snack. Now there is $11 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3Every row, column, and diagonal makes 39. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
4What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 6 = 390
Answer: ______________
5Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the top right box?
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 3 = 75
Answer: ______________
7Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $9 on a snack. Now there is $4 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8One 🍐 weighs the same as 2 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? ☐7 × 5 = 485
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐8 × 8 = 624
Answer: ______________
11What digit goes in the box? ☐2 × 7 = 644
Answer: ______________
12Every row, column, and diagonal makes 33. What number goes in the middle left box?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 1
- 2. 38 dollars
- 3. 9
- 4. 6
- 5. 8
- 6. 2
- 7. 26 dollars
- 8. 16
- 9. 9
- 10. 7
- 11. 9
- 12. 13
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