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: 6 heads and 22 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
2The pattern keeps going: 15, 21, 27, 33, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3The pattern keeps going: 11, 20, 29, 38, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4The pattern keeps going: 3, 10, 17, 24, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
5A farm has chickens and cows: 7 heads and 20 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
6The pattern keeps going: 7, 10, 13, 16, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
7A farm has chickens and cows: 5 heads and 14 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
8The pattern keeps going: 11, 15, 19, 23, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 13, 16, 19, 22, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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10The pattern keeps going: 1, 5, 9, 13, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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11The pattern keeps going: 18, 27, 36, 45, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
12A farm has chickens and cows: 8 heads and 18 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 1
- 2. 99
- 3. 92
- 4. 66
- 5. 3
- 6. 34
- 7. 2
- 8. 67
- 9. 46
- 10. 37
- 11. 189
- 12. 1
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