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: 10 heads and 34 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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2A farm has chickens and cows: 16 heads and 48 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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3The pattern keeps going: 5, 11, 17, 23, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
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4The pattern keeps going: 3, 12, 21, 30, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
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5The pattern keeps going: 8, 15, 22, 29, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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6The pattern keeps going: 10, 14, 18, 22, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
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7A farm has chickens and cows: 4 heads and 14 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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8The pattern keeps going: 6, 15, 24, 33, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
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9The pattern keeps going: 13, 19, 25, 31, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
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10The pattern keeps going: 9, 13, 17, 21, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
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11The pattern keeps going: 4, 11, 18, 25, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
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12A farm has chickens and cows: 9 heads and 20 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 7
- 2. 8
- 3. 119
- 4. 129
- 5. 85
- 6. 86
- 7. 3
- 8. 132
- 9. 127
- 10. 85
- 11. 137
- 12. 1
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