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 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
2The pattern keeps going: 6, 12, 18, 24, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3A 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
4A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 4 sandwiches, 4 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 3 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 3 sandwiches, 4 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 3 sandwiches, 3 fruits, and 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
8The pattern keeps going: 15, 19, 23, 27, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 12, 21, 30, 39, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
10The pattern keeps going: 7, 16, 25, 34, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
11A 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
12A farm has chickens and cows: 9 heads and 32 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 16 lunches
- 2. 120
- 3. 12 lunches
- 4. 32 lunches
- 5. 12 lunches
- 6. 36 lunches
- 7. 27 lunches
- 8. 91
- 9. 111
- 10. 106
- 11. 18 lunches
- 12. 2
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