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: 4 heads and 12 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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2The pattern keeps going: 4, 13, 22, 31, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
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3The pattern keeps going: 9, 18, 27, 36, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4The pattern keeps going: 6, 13, 20, 27, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
5A farm has chickens and cows: 9 heads and 20 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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6A farm has chickens and cows: 12 heads and 36 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 20, 24, 28, 32, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
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8The pattern keeps going: 14, 20, 26, 32, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 8, 15, 22, 29, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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10The pattern keeps going: 14, 20, 26, 32, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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11The pattern keeps going: 14, 18, 22, 26, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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12The pattern keeps going: 15, 24, 33, 42, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 2
- 2. 175
- 3. 90
- 4. 139
- 5. 1
- 6. 6
- 7. 76
- 8. 128
- 9. 71
- 10. 80
- 11. 50
- 12. 96
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