Unit 2 Contents

Use Strategies and Patterns

A square made from numbers is a magic square if the sum of each row, column, and diagonal is the same. The square from the turtle's back is a magic square.

3. Here is another magic square. Check that the sum of each row, column, and diagonal is the same. What is the sum?



4. One of these squares is a magic square and one is not.

5. Here is another magic square. Check the sum of each row, column, and diagonal.
1. What is the sum?
2. How is this magic square different from the others you have done?
3. How is it similar?

Use the More Magic Squares pages in the Student Activity Book to solve more of these ancient math puzzles.