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 2 sandwiches, 3 fruits, and 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
2The pattern keeps going: 2, 6, 10, 14, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3A 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
4A 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
5The pattern keeps going: 5, 9, 13, 17, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
6A farm has chickens and cows: 9 heads and 30 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
7A farm has chickens and cows: 12 heads and 32 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
8A 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
9A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 2 sandwiches, 4 fruits, and 2 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 3 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: 17, 21, 25, 29, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 12 lunches
- 2. 58
- 3. 24 lunches
- 4. 24 lunches
- 5. 81
- 6. 6
- 7. 8
- 8. 16 lunches
- 9. 16 lunches
- 10. 24 lunches
- 11. 4
- 12. 61
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