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, 4 fruits, and 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
2The pattern keeps going: 4, 8, 12, 16, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3A farm has chickens and cows: 3 heads and 10 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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
5The pattern keeps going: 11, 17, 23, 29, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
6A 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
7A farm has chickens and cows: 10 heads and 36 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
8The pattern keeps going: 3, 9, 15, 21, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
9A 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
10A farm has chickens and cows: 6 heads and 22 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
11A 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
12A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 32 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 32 lunches
- 2. 80
- 3. 1
- 4. 8 lunches
- 5. 77
- 6. 12 lunches
- 7. 2
- 8. 87
- 9. 24 lunches
- 10. 5
- 11. 24 lunches
- 12. 6
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