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 3 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, 2 fruits, and 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
3A 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
4A 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
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 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
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
8The pattern keeps going: 12, 16, 20, 24, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 3 sandwiches, 4 fruits, and 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
10The pattern keeps going: 16, 19, 22, 25, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
11A farm has chickens and cows: 5 heads and 14 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
12A farm has chickens and cows: 4 heads and 12 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 36 lunches
- 2. 18 lunches
- 3. 24 lunches
- 4. 12 lunches
- 5. 16 lunches
- 6. 12 lunches
- 7. 36 lunches
- 8. 48
- 9. 24 lunches
- 10. 43
- 11. 3
- 12. 2
Practice this lesson online with games that adjust to your child: agarwalmath.com/math/4th-grade/challenge-4