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, 2 fruits, and 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
2A farm has chickens and cows: 12 heads and 40 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
3A farm has chickens and cows: 6 heads and 22 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
4A 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
5A 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
6A farm has chickens and cows: 13 heads and 38 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
7A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 2 sandwiches, 3 fruits, and 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
8The pattern keeps going: 2, 9, 16, 23, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 12, 15, 18, 21, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
10A farm has chickens and cows: 7 heads and 18 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
11A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 2 sandwiches, 2 fruits, and 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
12The pattern keeps going: 1, 8, 15, 22, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24 lunches
- 2. 4
- 3. 5
- 4. 12 lunches
- 5. 16 lunches
- 6. 6
- 7. 12 lunches
- 8. 79
- 9. 39
- 10. 5
- 11. 8 lunches
- 12. 64
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