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: 9 heads and 32 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
2The pattern keeps going: 10, 16, 22, 28, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3The pattern keeps going: 8, 12, 16, 20, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4A farm has chickens and cows: 14 heads and 40 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
5The pattern keeps going: 10, 17, 24, 31, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
6The pattern keeps going: 18, 24, 30, 36, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
7A farm has chickens and cows: 10 heads and 36 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
8The pattern keeps going: 5, 11, 17, 23, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 19, 23, 27, 31, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
10A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 36 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
11The pattern keeps going: 3, 10, 17, 24, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
12The pattern keeps going: 6, 9, 12, 15, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 7
- 2. 76
- 3. 64
- 4. 8
- 5. 108
- 6. 84
- 7. 8
- 8. 71
- 9. 55
- 10. 4
- 11. 66
- 12. 63
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