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: 3 heads and 8 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
2The pattern keeps going: 17, 26, 35, 44, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3A farm has chickens and cows: 13 heads and 36 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
4The pattern keeps going: 20, 26, 32, 38, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
5The pattern keeps going: 17, 23, 29, 35, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
6The pattern keeps going: 18, 25, 32, 39, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 2, 5, 8, 11, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
8A farm has chickens and cows: 12 heads and 36 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
9A farm has chickens and cows: 9 heads and 28 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
10The pattern keeps going: 6, 12, 18, 24, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
11A farm has chickens and cows: 13 heads and 42 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
12The pattern keeps going: 2, 6, 10, 14, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 2
- 2. 188
- 3. 8
- 4. 134
- 5. 131
- 6. 151
- 7. 59
- 8. 6
- 9. 4
- 10. 90
- 11. 8
- 12. 46
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