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
2One 🍓 weighs the same as 2 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
3A lunch is 1 sandwich, 1 fruit, and 1 drink. There are 4 sandwiches, 3 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 2 sandwiches, 3 fruits, and 3 drinks to choose from. How many different lunches are there?
Answer: ______________ lunches
5I am a multiple of 7. I am more than 71 and less than 78. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
6One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
8A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 30 legs in all. How many cows are there?
Answer: ______________
9One 🍐 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10I am a multiple of 4. I am more than 35 and less than 39. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
11A 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
12The pattern keeps going: 12, 16, 20, 24, … What is number 15 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 12 lunches
- 2. 2
- 3. 36 lunches
- 4. 18 lunches
- 5. 77
- 6. 6
- 7. 21
- 8. 4
- 9. 7
- 10. 36
- 11. 8 lunches
- 12. 68
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