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: 14, 17, 20, 23, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
2A farm has chickens and cows: 4 heads and 14 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
3A farm has chickens and cows: 10 heads and 30 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
4The pattern keeps going: 16, 19, 22, 25, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
5A farm has chickens and cows: 12 heads and 34 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
6The pattern keeps going: 5, 12, 19, 26, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 2, 5, 8, 11, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
8A farm has chickens and cows: 5 heads and 16 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 12, 18, 24, 30, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
10The pattern keeps going: 14, 21, 28, 35, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
11The pattern keeps going: 4, 7, 10, 13, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
12The pattern keeps going: 19, 22, 25, 28, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 47
- 2. 3
- 3. 5
- 4. 49
- 5. 7
- 6. 138
- 7. 29
- 8. 2
- 9. 126
- 10. 112
- 11. 31
- 12. 61
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