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: ____________
1A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 30 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
2The pattern keeps going: 12, 15, 18, 21, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3The pattern keeps going: 1, 4, 7, 10, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4The pattern keeps going: 3, 9, 15, 21, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
5The pattern keeps going: 12, 16, 20, 24, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
6The pattern keeps going: 17, 24, 31, 38, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 9, 15, 21, 27, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
8The pattern keeps going: 13, 17, 21, 25, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 17, 21, 25, 29, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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10A farm has chickens and cows: 5 heads and 14 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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11A farm has chickens and cows: 7 heads and 18 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
12The pattern keeps going: 7, 14, 21, 28, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 4
- 2. 45
- 3. 34
- 4. 69
- 5. 68
- 6. 80
- 7. 123
- 8. 89
- 9. 53
- 10. 3
- 11. 5
- 12. 105
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