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 farm has chickens and cows: 16 heads and 48 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
3A 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
4A farm has chickens and cows: 12 heads and 34 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
5A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 2 sandwiches, 3 fruits, and 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
6A 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
7The pattern keeps going: 16, 23, 30, 37, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
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
9A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 3 sandwiches, 3 fruits, and 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
10A 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
11A farm has chickens and cows: 10 heads and 28 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
12The pattern keeps going: 10, 16, 22, 28, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 12 lunches
- 2. 8
- 3. 24 lunches
- 4. 5
- 5. 18 lunches
- 6. 36 lunches
- 7. 149
- 8. 48 lunches
- 9. 27 lunches
- 10. 18 lunches
- 11. 4
- 12. 94
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