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: 15, 24, 33, 42, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
2The pattern keeps going: 3, 6, 9, 12, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3A farm has chickens and cows: 6 heads and 14 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
4The pattern keeps going: 3, 9, 15, 21, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
5The pattern keeps going: 18, 27, 36, 45, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
6A farm has chickens and cows: 12 heads and 36 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 18, 21, 24, 27, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
8A farm has chickens and cows: 12 heads and 36 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 5, 14, 23, 32, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
10The pattern keeps going: 13, 17, 21, 25, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
11A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 36 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
12The pattern keeps going: 17, 21, 25, 29, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 114
- 2. 60
- 3. 5
- 4. 69
- 5. 189
- 6. 6
- 7. 51
- 8. 6
- 9. 176
- 10. 57
- 11. 4
- 12. 73
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