πagarwalmath · 4th 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: ____________
1The pattern keeps going: 19, 23, 27, 31, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
2A farm has chickens and cows: 10 heads and 36 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
3The pattern keeps going: 18, 22, 26, 30, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4The pattern keeps going: 7, 16, 25, 34, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
5A farm has chickens and cows: 5 heads and 16 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
6The pattern keeps going: 2, 8, 14, 20, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 20, 23, 26, 29, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
8The pattern keeps going: 20, 26, 32, 38, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 10, 14, 18, 22, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
10The pattern keeps going: 17, 20, 23, 26, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
11A farm has chickens and cows: 12 heads and 32 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
12A farm has chickens and cows: 6 heads and 14 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 75
- 2. 8
- 3. 74
- 4. 178
- 5. 3
- 6. 116
- 7. 47
- 8. 74
- 9. 86
- 10. 50
- 11. 4
- 12. 1
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