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 30 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
2The pattern keeps going: 6, 15, 24, 33, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3The pattern keeps going: 18, 22, 26, 30, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4The pattern keeps going: 9, 18, 27, 36, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
5The pattern keeps going: 3, 10, 17, 24, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
6A farm has chickens and cows: 4 heads and 14 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 2, 11, 20, 29, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
8A farm has chickens and cows: 12 heads and 38 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
9A farm has chickens and cows: 9 heads and 34 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
10The pattern keeps going: 12, 19, 26, 33, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
11The pattern keeps going: 3, 7, 11, 15, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
12A farm has chickens and cows: 6 heads and 22 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 87
- 3. 74
- 4. 90
- 5. 66
- 6. 1
- 7. 83
- 8. 5
- 9. 8
- 10. 110
- 11. 59
- 12. 5
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