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 30 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
2The pattern keeps going: 9, 16, 23, 30, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3The pattern keeps going: 18, 21, 24, 27, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4The pattern keeps going: 2, 8, 14, 20, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
5A farm has chickens and cows: 5 heads and 16 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
6A farm has chickens and cows: 10 heads and 30 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 4, 7, 10, 13, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
8The pattern keeps going: 9, 13, 17, 21, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 16, 22, 28, 34, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
10The pattern keeps going: 18, 24, 30, 36, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
11The pattern keeps going: 17, 23, 29, 35, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
12A farm has chickens and cows: 7 heads and 18 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 7
- 2. 86
- 3. 45
- 4. 68
- 5. 3
- 6. 5
- 7. 46
- 8. 85
- 9. 100
- 10. 72
- 11. 131
- 12. 2
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