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: 13 heads and 38 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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2A farm has chickens and cows: 14 heads and 42 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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3The pattern keeps going: 19, 25, 31, 37, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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4A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 34 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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5The pattern keeps going: 2, 6, 10, 14, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
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6The pattern keeps going: 17, 26, 35, 44, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
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7The pattern keeps going: 17, 21, 25, 29, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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8The pattern keeps going: 6, 9, 12, 15, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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9A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 32 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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10The pattern keeps going: 16, 22, 28, 34, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
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11A farm has chickens and cows: 5 heads and 18 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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12The pattern keeps going: 3, 10, 17, 24, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 6
- 2. 7
- 3. 85
- 4. 5
- 5. 58
- 6. 188
- 7. 53
- 8. 39
- 9. 5
- 10. 130
- 11. 4
- 12. 80
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