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: 8 heads and 22 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
2The pattern keeps going: 8, 14, 20, 26, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3The pattern keeps going: 20, 27, 34, 41, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4The pattern keeps going: 1, 8, 15, 22, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
5The pattern keeps going: 10, 16, 22, 28, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
6A farm has chickens and cows: 6 heads and 18 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
7A farm has chickens and cows: 15 heads and 46 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
8The pattern keeps going: 19, 22, 25, 28, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 20, 29, 38, 47, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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10The pattern keeps going: 1, 7, 13, 19, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
11The pattern keeps going: 8, 15, 22, 29, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
12The pattern keeps going: 2, 8, 14, 20, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 74
- 3. 97
- 4. 64
- 5. 124
- 6. 3
- 7. 8
- 8. 76
- 9. 119
- 10. 115
- 11. 85
- 12. 86
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