Grade 5 Logic and Reasoning Puzzles
Engage fifth graders with a variety of logic and reasoning puzzles to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
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Grade 5 Logic and Reasoning Puzzles
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Read each puzzle carefully and use your logic and reasoning skills to find the correct answer. Show your work or explain your thinking where requested.
Riddles: Use your brainpower to solve these tricky questions!
1. I have cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish. What am I?
2. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Match the number sequence rule on the left with the correct sequence on the right.
1. Start at 2, add 3 each time
a. 5, 10, 15, 20
2. Start at 5, multiply by 2 each time
b. 2, 5, 8, 11
3. Start at 5, add 5 each time
c. 5, 10, 20, 40
3. Sarah, Tom, and Emily each have a favorite fruit: apple, banana, or cherry. Use the clues to figure out who likes which fruit.
Clue 1: Sarah does not like bananas.
Clue 2: Tom's favorite fruit is red.
Who likes apple?
Who likes banana?
Who likes cherry?
4. What comes next in the pattern?
None of the above
5. Look at the number line below. Fill in the missing numbers.
The missing number between 20 and 40 is .
The number before 10 is .
6. Read the statement and determine if it is True or False.
If all dogs are animals, and all animals need water, then all dogs need water.
True
False