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: 6 heads and 20 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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2A farm has chickens and cows: 6 heads and 20 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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3A farm has chickens and cows: 8 heads and 28 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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4The pattern keeps going: 8, 17, 26, 35, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
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5The pattern keeps going: 11, 18, 25, 32, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
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6The pattern keeps going: 13, 22, 31, 40, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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7A farm has chickens and cows: 16 heads and 48 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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8The pattern keeps going: 3, 6, 9, 12, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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9The pattern keeps going: 16, 20, 24, 28, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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10The pattern keeps going: 12, 21, 30, 39, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
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11The pattern keeps going: 3, 12, 21, 30, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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12The pattern keeps going: 17, 24, 31, 38, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 2
- 2. 4
- 3. 6
- 4. 134
- 5. 109
- 6. 94
- 7. 8
- 8. 30
- 9. 60
- 10. 138
- 11. 102
- 12. 94
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