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: ____________
1The pattern keeps going: 14, 20, 26, 32, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
2A farm has chickens and cows: 7 heads and 18 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
3A farm has chickens and cows: 12 heads and 40 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
4A farm has chickens and cows: 10 heads and 28 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
5The pattern keeps going: 14, 21, 28, 35, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
6The pattern keeps going: 3, 12, 21, 30, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 1, 10, 19, 28, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
8The pattern keeps going: 12, 16, 20, 24, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 10, 13, 16, 19, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
10A farm has chickens and cows: 10 heads and 24 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
11The pattern keeps going: 11, 17, 23, 29, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
12A farm has chickens and cows: 12 heads and 40 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 68
- 2. 5
- 3. 8
- 4. 4
- 5. 91
- 6. 174
- 7. 127
- 8. 56
- 9. 43
- 10. 2
- 11. 125
- 12. 4
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