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 lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 3 sandwiches, 2 fruits, and 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
2A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 4 sandwiches, 3 fruits, and 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
3The pattern keeps going: 15, 19, 23, 27, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 4 sandwiches, 2 fruits, and 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
5A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 36 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
6A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 4 sandwiches, 4 fruits, and 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
7The pattern keeps going: 15, 18, 21, 24, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
8A farm has chickens and cows: 8 heads and 26 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
9A farm has chickens and cows: 4 heads and 12 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
10A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 4 sandwiches, 2 fruits, and 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
11A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 2 sandwiches, 2 fruits, and 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
12The pattern keeps going: 5, 11, 17, 23, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 12 lunches
- 2. 24 lunches
- 3. 91
- 4. 16 lunches
- 5. 4
- 6. 32 lunches
- 7. 42
- 8. 5
- 9. 2
- 10. 24 lunches
- 11. 12 lunches
- 12. 71
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