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, 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 4 sandwiches, 2 fruits, and 2 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, 4 fruits, and 3 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, 3 fruits, and 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
5A farm has chickens and cows: 8 heads and 22 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
6A 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
7A 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
8A farm has chickens and cows: 12 heads and 36 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
9A farm has chickens and cows: 10 heads and 32 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
10A farm has chickens and cows: 13 heads and 36 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
11The pattern keeps going: 14, 23, 32, 41, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
12A farm has chickens and cows: 5 heads and 18 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 18 lunches
- 2. 16 lunches
- 3. 48 lunches
- 4. 18 lunches
- 5. 3
- 6. 27 lunches
- 7. 24 lunches
- 8. 6
- 9. 4
- 10. 5
- 11. 140
- 12. 1
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