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 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 2 sandwiches, 2 fruits, and 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
3The pattern keeps going: 20, 29, 38, 47, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 2 sandwiches, 2 fruits, and 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
5A farm has chickens and cows: 7 heads and 22 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
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 4 sandwiches, 3 fruits, and 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
8A farm has chickens and cows: 15 heads and 46 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
9A farm has chickens and cows: 6 heads and 18 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
10A 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
11A 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
12The pattern keeps going: 18, 21, 24, 27, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24 lunches
- 2. 12 lunches
- 3. 119
- 4. 8 lunches
- 5. 3
- 6. 12 lunches
- 7. 36 lunches
- 8. 7
- 9. 3
- 10. 27 lunches
- 11. 16 lunches
- 12. 60
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