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 34 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
2The pattern keeps going: 6, 15, 24, 33, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3The pattern keeps going: 5, 14, 23, 32, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4The pattern keeps going: 7, 14, 21, 28, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
5A farm has chickens and cows: 10 heads and 24 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
6The pattern keeps going: 10, 17, 24, 31, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 6, 10, 14, 18, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
8A farm has chickens and cows: 5 heads and 18 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 8, 17, 26, 35, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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10The pattern keeps going: 5, 8, 11, 14, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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11The pattern keeps going: 18, 27, 36, 45, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
12The pattern keeps going: 18, 24, 30, 36, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 8
- 2. 132
- 3. 131
- 4. 84
- 5. 8
- 6. 143
- 7. 62
- 8. 4
- 9. 89
- 10. 32
- 11. 189
- 12. 102
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