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: 9 heads and 22 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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2A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 34 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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3The pattern keeps going: 17, 23, 29, 35, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4The pattern keeps going: 12, 18, 24, 30, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
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5The pattern keeps going: 14, 23, 32, 41, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
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6The pattern keeps going: 16, 25, 34, 43, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 19, 25, 31, 37, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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8The pattern keeps going: 12, 15, 18, 21, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 19, 28, 37, 46, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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10A farm has chickens and cows: 8 heads and 24 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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11A farm has chickens and cows: 3 heads and 10 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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12The pattern keeps going: 11, 15, 19, 23, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 2
- 2. 5
- 3. 131
- 4. 96
- 5. 140
- 6. 142
- 7. 85
- 8. 69
- 9. 118
- 10. 4
- 11. 1
- 12. 55
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