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 16 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
2The pattern keeps going: 7, 10, 13, 16, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3The pattern keeps going: 14, 20, 26, 32, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4The pattern keeps going: 2, 8, 14, 20, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
5A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 36 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
6The pattern keeps going: 7, 16, 25, 34, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 14, 23, 32, 41, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
8The pattern keeps going: 4, 8, 12, 16, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 18, 21, 24, 27, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
10The pattern keeps going: 11, 14, 17, 20, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
11The pattern keeps going: 14, 20, 26, 32, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
12A farm has chickens and cows: 4 heads and 14 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 4
- 2. 40
- 3. 128
- 4. 56
- 5. 4
- 6. 178
- 7. 185
- 8. 40
- 9. 45
- 10. 38
- 11. 80
- 12. 1
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