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: 1, 10, 19, 28, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3A 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
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: 14, 17, 20, 23, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
6A 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
7A 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
8A 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
9A 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
10A farm has chickens and cows: 5 heads and 16 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
11The pattern keeps going: 10, 13, 16, 19, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
12The pattern keeps going: 12, 18, 24, 30, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 27 lunches
- 2. 82
- 3. 18 lunches
- 4. 32 lunches
- 5. 71
- 6. 16 lunches
- 7. 12 lunches
- 8. 18 lunches
- 9. 16 lunches
- 10. 3
- 11. 37
- 12. 96
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