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 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
2The pattern keeps going: 13, 20, 27, 34, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
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 4 sandwiches, 4 fruits, and 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
5The pattern keeps going: 17, 21, 25, 29, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
6A 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
7A 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
8A farm has chickens and cows: 3 heads and 10 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
9A 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
10A 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
11The pattern keeps going: 19, 26, 33, 40, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
12A 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
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 27 lunches
- 2. 111
- 3. 48 lunches
- 4. 32 lunches
- 5. 73
- 6. 36 lunches
- 7. 24 lunches
- 8. 2
- 9. 36 lunches
- 10. 16 lunches
- 11. 152
- 12. 18 lunches
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