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: 11 heads and 34 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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2A farm has chickens and cows: 10 heads and 36 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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3The pattern keeps going: 17, 20, 23, 26, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
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4A farm has chickens and cows: 8 heads and 18 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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5A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 36 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
6The pattern keeps going: 5, 9, 13, 17, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
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7A farm has chickens and cows: 6 heads and 14 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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8The pattern keeps going: 15, 19, 23, 27, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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9A farm has chickens and cows: 4 heads and 14 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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10The pattern keeps going: 19, 23, 27, 31, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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11The pattern keeps going: 1, 5, 9, 13, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
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12The pattern keeps going: 16, 25, 34, 43, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
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Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 5
- 2. 2
- 3. 50
- 4. 7
- 5. 4
- 6. 61
- 7. 1
- 8. 51
- 9. 1
- 10. 55
- 11. 57
- 12. 187
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