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: 3 heads and 8 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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2A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 36 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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3The pattern keeps going: 10, 16, 22, 28, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
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4A farm has chickens and cows: 8 heads and 30 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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5The pattern keeps going: 7, 14, 21, 28, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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6The pattern keeps going: 3, 12, 21, 30, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
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7The pattern keeps going: 13, 17, 21, 25, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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8The pattern keeps going: 4, 10, 16, 22, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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9The pattern keeps going: 12, 19, 26, 33, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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10The pattern keeps going: 4, 7, 10, 13, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
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11A farm has chickens and cows: 8 heads and 24 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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12A farm has chickens and cows: 12 heads and 38 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 1
- 2. 4
- 3. 94
- 4. 1
- 5. 84
- 6. 174
- 7. 57
- 8. 58
- 9. 89
- 10. 46
- 11. 4
- 12. 5
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