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: 5 heads and 12 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
2The pattern keeps going: 17, 20, 23, 26, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3The pattern keeps going: 15, 18, 21, 24, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4The pattern keeps going: 17, 20, 23, 26, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
5The pattern keeps going: 8, 12, 16, 20, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
6The pattern keeps going: 7, 16, 25, 34, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 8, 14, 20, 26, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
8The pattern keeps going: 10, 16, 22, 28, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 12, 18, 24, 30, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
10A farm has chickens and cows: 7 heads and 20 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
11The pattern keeps going: 15, 24, 33, 42, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
12A farm has chickens and cows: 16 heads and 48 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 1
- 2. 44
- 3. 42
- 4. 50
- 5. 52
- 6. 178
- 7. 74
- 8. 94
- 9. 66
- 10. 3
- 11. 114
- 12. 8
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