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, 4 fruits, and 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
2The pattern keeps going: 1, 4, 7, 10, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
3A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 2 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, 3 fruits, and 2 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
5A farm has chickens and cows: 13 heads and 38 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
6The pattern keeps going: 18, 27, 36, 45, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
7A farm has chickens and cows: 10 heads and 30 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
8A farm has chickens and cows: 9 heads and 32 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
9The pattern keeps going: 17, 20, 23, 26, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
10A farm has chickens and cows: 13 heads and 36 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
11A 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
12The pattern keeps going: 18, 25, 32, 39, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24 lunches
- 2. 28
- 3. 24 lunches
- 4. 24 lunches
- 5. 6
- 6. 99
- 7. 5
- 8. 7
- 9. 44
- 10. 5
- 11. 18 lunches
- 12. 151
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