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: ____________
1The pattern keeps going: 1, 7, 13, 19, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
2The pattern keeps going: 18, 22, 26, 30, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3A farm has chickens and cows: 14 heads and 40 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
4A farm has chickens and cows: 15 heads and 46 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
5The pattern keeps going: 8, 17, 26, 35, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
6The pattern keeps going: 3, 10, 17, 24, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 10, 19, 28, 37, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
8The pattern keeps going: 4, 7, 10, 13, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9A farm has chickens and cows: 9 heads and 28 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
10A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 32 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
11The pattern keeps going: 4, 11, 18, 25, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
12The pattern keeps going: 1, 5, 9, 13, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 67
- 2. 62
- 3. 8
- 4. 7
- 5. 179
- 6. 101
- 7. 91
- 8. 61
- 9. 5
- 10. 6
- 11. 137
- 12. 57
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