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 4 sandwiches, 3 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 3 sandwiches, 3 fruits, and 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
3A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 34 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
4A farm has chickens and cows: 10 heads and 32 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
5The pattern keeps going: 14, 21, 28, 35, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
6A 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
7A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 3 sandwiches, 4 fruits, and 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
8A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 4 sandwiches, 4 fruits, and 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
9The pattern keeps going: 10, 14, 18, 22, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
10A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 4 sandwiches, 3 fruits, and 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
11A farm has chickens and cows: 4 heads and 10 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
12A farm has chickens and cows: 13 heads and 42 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24 lunches
- 2. 18 lunches
- 3. 5
- 4. 4
- 5. 91
- 6. 12 lunches
- 7. 36 lunches
- 8. 48 lunches
- 9. 54
- 10. 36 lunches
- 11. 3
- 12. 8
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