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 farm has chickens and cows: 13 heads and 38 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
3The pattern keeps going: 5, 8, 11, 14, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
4A farm has chickens and cows: 9 heads and 20 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
5I am a multiple of 6. I am more than 45 and less than 51. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
6I am a multiple of 6. I am more than 35 and less than 41. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
7I am a multiple of 6. I am more than 40 and less than 46. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
8I am a multiple of 4. I am more than 22 and less than 26. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
9I am a multiple of 6. I am more than 34 and less than 40. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
10The pattern keeps going: 6, 12, 18, 24, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
11I am a multiple of 4. I am more than 37 and less than 41. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
12The pattern keeps going: 13, 16, 19, 22, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 24 lunches
- 2. 7
- 3. 38
- 4. 8
- 5. 48
- 6. 36
- 7. 42
- 8. 24
- 9. 36
- 10. 120
- 11. 40
- 12. 55
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